Highlighted Events from June

Tue 19 Jun 1917

Parliament voted by a majority of, 330 to give votes to women over, 30 for the first time.

Sat 20 Jun 1891

Birth of John Aloysius Costello, Ireland’s third Taoiseach

Thu 11 Jun 1903

Thomas Sloan and others found the Independent Orange Order in Belfast

Sat 24 Jun 1876

Birth of Forrest Reid in Belfast. He was a novelist, critic, and autobiographer. He became a distinguished book and print collector, eventually writing a definitive work on the book of illustrators of the 1860s