January 27

Mother Mary Martin, founder of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, dies in Drogheda

January 27, 1975

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

January 27, 1944

First public demonstration of TV by John Logie Baird

January 27, 1926

Charles Stewart Parnell turns the first sod for the West Clare Railway

January 27, 1885

Glasgow Herald newspaper first published

January 27, 1783

Sir Humphrey Arundell, leader of the Cornish Prayer Book Rebellion, executed

January 27, 1550