January 30

Section: January 30

January 30, 1998

Ship-wrecked Elizabeth McClean emerges in sand

January 30, 1984

Luke Kelly, lead vocalist and 5-string banjo member of the Dubliners, dies

January 30, 1972

Bloody Sunday, Derry City, North Ireland

January 30, 1947

Jim Larkin, Irish labor leader, dies

January 30, 1920

Tomás MacCurtain is elected Lord Mayor of Cork for Sinn Féin

January 30, 1900

The Irish Party reunites ten years after it split

January 30, 1865

John Hughes, sculptor, born in Dublin

January 30, 1864

The National Gallery of Ireland, opens

January 30, 1859

Edward Martyn, playwright, co-founder of Irish Literary Theatre, and Sinn Féin president, is born

January 30, 1845

Kitty O'Shea, mistress and later, the wife of Parnell

January 30 1649

King Charles I executed at Whitehall