February 03

February 03, 1919

Harry Boland and Michael Collins engineer Eamon de Valeras escape from Lincoln Jail in England

February 03, 1911

Robert Noonan, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, dies

February 03, 1896

Lady Jane Wilde (Spiranza), poet, nationalist and the mother of Oscar, dies in London

February 03, 1881

Irish Land League organizer Michael Davitt is arrested again in Dublin

February 03, 1801

Prime Minister William Pitt resigns over royal veto on Catholic emancipation

February 03, 1744

Lord Netterville, indicted for the murder of Michael Walsh, is acquitted by his Parlimentary Peers