June 13

June 13, 1975

Rate of price inflation reached, 25% in the UK.

June 13, 1951

Eamon de Valera becomes Taoiseach

June 13, 1886

Molly Malone reputedly dies of the fever

June 13, 1884

Mary Colum in Collooney, Co. Sligo, born

June 13, 1865

Birth of W.B. Yeats in Dublin

June 13, 1831

James Clerk Maxwell, first Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge University, born

June 13, 1819

The Strathnaver Clearances began on the Sutherland estates

June 13, 1798

Battle of Ballynahinch, Ireland, defeat of United Irish Army in Ulster.

June 13, 1748

Sir Robert King, MP for Boyle, Co. Roscommon, is created Baron Kingsborough

June 13, 1713

Jonathan Swift becomes Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin