# On this Day
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The Battle of Dublin: It's 100 years since the Four Courts assault that launched the Civil War
28 Jun 2022
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dutch master
On this day in 1972, one of the greatest defenders of his generation was born
16 Jul 2020
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Anniversary
On this day in 2002, Middlesbrough smashed their club transfer record for an Italian striker
2 Jul 2020
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On this Day
The jaw, the mettle and the choke? 10 years on from Leinster's dramatic win over Clermont
9 Apr 2020
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RTÉ dug up this clip of Pierce Brosnan apologising to Irish people for the dodgy accents in Remington Steele
21 Aug 2017
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the way we were
15 thoughts everyone has while scrolling through their cringey Facebook On This Day
15 Nov 2016
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World War One
'Heaps of wounded and dead. Showers of dust and earth and lead. Deafening explosions and blinding smoke'
2 Jul 2016
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Anniversary
50 years later and the Nelson's Pillar bomber says he has no regrets
8 Mar 2016
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scarlet for myself
Mortifying, embarrassing, shameful: My history in Facebook On This Day memories
15 Nov 2015
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On this Day
"Clawing at the earth, swelling as if with its regurgitation of all the life that it had consumed"
9 Aug 2015
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It has been 70 years since 70,000 people were killed in less than a minute
6 Aug 2015
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There's a campaign to have a US military ship named after an Irishman from Ballyhaunis
18 Jul 2015
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On this Day
CNN and Sky News would have loved the Flying Enterprise saga... It was the 'Chilean Mine Rescue' of its time
10 Jan 2015
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On this Day
QUIZ: These major news events all happened around Christmas ... But in what year?
26 Dec 2014
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lovely and sunny
Waterford gift shop has the most Irish 'on this day' trivia sign ever
24 Aug 2014
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Bomb
Photos: On this day in 1966 Nelson’s Pillar in O’Connell Street was blown up
8 Mar 2014
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