This Day in Irish History: From the Social Media Sensation @Thisdayirish

by Padraic Coffey

Book Overview

You may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle was invented in Tallaght? Or that Dublin was the first city in the world to have a woman stockbroker, decades before London or New York? Or that the formula used to create the video game Tomb Raider was sketched on a bridge in Cabra in the nineteenth century?

With one entry for every day of the year, this book marks the anniversaries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788493664
• ISBN13: 9781788493666
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: O'Brien Press
• Length: 384 Pages