Looking for a website listing past events/happenings in Ireland

[hansov]

Have to speak at a 50th wedding anniversary next week and was looking for a reliable website that could tell me who was in government, who won the All Ireland, etc etc for the past 50 years. I am sure that somebody somwhere has put together Irish happenngs in chronological order but don't know where to look. Googled and was not too successful. Thanks

 

[paddi22]

Re: Looking for a website listingpast events/happenings in Ireland

mightn't be much use as it only covers the 70's, 80's 90's.

http://www.rte.ie/tv/reelingintheyears/

if you click on the menu's running down the left handside you can access each seperate year.

 

[brodiebabe]

Re: Looking for a website listingpast events/happenings in Ireland

You could look on the Irish Times Digital Archive - available for free in you local library.

 

[Guest120]

Re: Looking for a website listingpast events/happenings in Ireland

You find most of what you want on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_general_elections

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship#Past_winners

 

[Complainer]

Re: Looking for a website listingpast events/happenings in Ireland

If you drop into the National Library (Kildare St), you will able to see the newspapers for that day.

 

[ClubMan]

National Archives might be another option. And *cough* .

Should be some speech given all the research resources that you have now!

 

[hansov]

Thanks Clubman - maybe I serialise it. Funny that your 'google search" hit a few better links than mine despite I using the same words . It must be the way that you do it!

 

[ClubMan]

I see compo culture was alive and well in 1950s Ireland!

July 25 - £100 damages are awarded to a nine-year old who was beaten by his teacher in a national school.