15 April 1840: Daniel O’Connell launched the ‘National Association of Ireland for full and prompt Justice and Repeal’. The Campaign for Repeal of the Union was to give O’Connell some of his greatest moments but eventually ended in bitter defeat despite the initial success of his ‘Monster Meetings’
15 April 1848: Thomas Francis Meagher of the Young Ireland Party displayed the new national flag of Green, White an Orange to the public for the first time on his return to Dublin from Paris.
15/16 April 1940: The Luftwaffe Bombed Belfast on the night of 16 April 1940 and killed 745 people, injured 1,500 and destroyed 1,600 houses. 13 fire engines from Dublin, Dun Laoghaire, Drogheda and Dundalk were sent to help.
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