Today on Celtic History on

January 30th

Fri 30 Jan 1998

Ship-wrecked Elizabeth McClean emerges in sand

Mon 30 Jan 1984

Luke Kelly, lead vocalist and 5-string banjo member of the Dubliners, dies

Sun 30 Jan 1972

Bloody Sunday, Derry City, North Ireland

Thu 30 Jan 1947

Jim Larkin, Irish labor leader, dies

Fri 30 Jan 1920

Tomás MacCurtain is elected Lord Mayor of Cork for Sinn Féin

Tue 30 Jan 1900

The Irish Party reunites ten years after it split

Mon 30 Jan 1865

John Hughes, sculptor, born in Dublin

Sat 30 Jan 1864

The National Gallery of Ireland, opens

Sun 30 Jan 1859

Edward Martyn, playwright, co-founder of Irish Literary Theatre, and Sinn Féin president, is born

Thu 30 Jan 1845

Kitty O'Shea, mistress and later, the wife of Parnell

Sat 30 Jan 1649

King Charles I executed at Whitehall