January 20

Section: January 20

January 20, 1964

Alfred Chester Beatty, Irish library and art patron, died

January 20, 1920

IRA attacks Drombrane barracks, Co. Tipperary

January 20, 1916

Secret negotiations result in alliance of the Irish Citizen Army with the Irish Republican Brotherhood

January 20, 1902

Kevin Barry, medical student and nationalist revolutionary, is born

January 20, 1902

John Redmond criticizes the use of concentration camps by the British in South Africa

January 20, 1841

James Armour, Presbyterian minister and political activist, is born

January 20, 1746

Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Stirling

January 20, 1621

Patents are granted for plantations in parts of Leitrim, Kings County, Queens County and Westmeath