Ireland

Eamon de Valera responds to Churchills victory speech during which Churchill took one last jab at Irish neutrality

In a radio broadcast, Churchill accuses de Valeras government of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese

Victory-in-Europe Day, end of World War II in Europe

Donal Lunny, founder of Planxty, Bothy Band, and Moving Hearts, born

Dónal Lunny (born 10 March 1947) is an Irish folk musician and producer. He plays guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán. As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD, and Usher’s Island, he has been at the forefront of the renaissance of Irish traditional music for over five decades.

Brenda Fricker, actress, born

HMS Vanguard, Britains biggest and last battleship, was launched at Clydebank

HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the Royal Navy’s battleships, the only ship of her class, and the last battleship to be built.

Birth of Lord Roger of Earlsferry, Lord Justice General.

Death of Limerick man, Frank Ryan

Death of Frank Ryan, prominent Irish republican and anti-fascist, occurs on June 10, 1944, in Dresden, Germany. Born in Limerick in 1902, Ryan was a former member of the IRA and later a leading figure in the Republican Congress, a left-wing breakaway movement.

Eamon de Valera is returned as Taoiseach

Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, founder of NI Peace Movement, born

Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.