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January 28
Section: January 28
January 28, 1941
The Emergency Powers Act provides for the censorship of press messages to places outside the Free State
January 28, 1939
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, dies
January, 28 1908
Jimmy Shand, Scottish country dance band leader, born
January 28, 1892
David Mary Tidmarsh , WWI Ace, born in Limerick
January 28, 1877
George Fitzmaurice, Irish Renaissance playwright, is born
January 28, 1873
Patrick Malley is killed by his son William Malley at Calla
January 28, 1852
Louis Brennan, inventor, is born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo
January 28, 1829
William Burke, murderer and body snatcher of Burke and Hare fame, executed
January 28, 1818
The Iberno-Celtic Society is founded to preserve and publish the best ancient Irish literature
January 28, 1807
Sir Robert McClure, polar explorer and discoverer of the North-West Passage, born in Co. Wexford
January 28, 1786
By charter, the Irish Academy becomes the Royal Irish Academy
January 28, 1742
Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene, is born in Co. Antrim
January 28, 1635
The City of London and the Irish Society of London are found guilty of mismanagement and neglect
January 28, 1610
The crown and the Irish Society of London, agree to carry out the plantation of Derry, Coleraine and part of Tyrone