January 15

Neil M. Gunn, author, died

January 15, 1973

Dave MacAuley, boxer, born

January 15, 1961

IRA Army Council declare war on England

January 15, 1939

Sinn Féin takes control of most borough and urban councils in local elections

January 15, 1920

Terence MacManus, the Young Irelander, dies in San Francisco

January 15, 1861

Eleanor Hull, Irish Celtic Scholar is born

January 15, 1860

Patrick Robert Guiney, soldier and politician, born in Parkstown, Co. Tipperary

January 15, 1835

Last session of the Irish Parliament begins

January 15, 1800

Thomas Crofton Croker, antiquarian and folklorist, is born in Cork

January 15, 1798

Thomas Dermody, classical scholar and poet is born

January 15, 1775