June 08

Barry McGuigan beats Eusebia Pedrosa to become the World Featherweight Champion

June 8, 1985

Birth of Peter Rafferty, diplomat

June 8, 1929

Brian Coffey, poet and scientist, is born in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

June 8, 1905

Gladstones Home Rule Bill is defeated

June 8, 1886

Acts setting up soup kitchens and rate-aided outdoor Famine relief come to an end

June 8, 1847

In Co. Wicklow, the Arklow garrison is reinforced.

June 8, 1798

Robert Stevenson, engineer, who constructed, 18 lighthouses around Scotland, born Glasgow.

June 8, 1772

Earl of Clonmell and Chief Justice John Scott, aka Copper-Faced Jack, is born in Co. Tipperary

June 8, 1739

Birth of John Smeaton, civil engineer and lighthouse builder.

June 8, 1724

Shane ONeill rebels and is proclaimed a traitor

June 8, 1561

King Edward III of England orders seizure of the Isle of Mann from the Scots.

June 8, 1333