Thu 18 Dec 1980

Prisoners in Armagh and Long Kesh end their 53 day hunger strike on promises of political status. The promises are not kept

Wed 18 Dec 1878

Joseph James O'Neill, writer and civil servant, was born 18 December 1878 at Tuam, Co. Galway

Wed 18 Dec 1782

Barry Yelverton introduces the bill that will become Yelverton's Act