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Alcohol has malign influence ‘from cradle to grave’ 
On This Day/November 20 1940 20/11/09‘Wise and prudent observers of the times predict that there is very close at hand a wave of intemperance which will break upon us; that we are riding on the crest of the wave of temperance and that we will be plunged again into what looks like a slough of intemperance.’
De Valera’s address on the defence of the state
On This Day/November 19 1940 19/11/09“We sympathise with all peoples who are involved in this terrible war. It is our wish that this war should cease but, being unable to bring peace to other countries, our aim is to see we have peace here and the best way to secure that is for every young man to join up with the permanent forces.”
Nationalists protest over ‘industrial conscription’
On This Day/November 18 1940 18/11/09At the monthly meeting of the Nationalist members of the Commons and Senate of Northern Ireland held in Belfast yesterday, the question of the payment of unemployment insurance in the six counties was considered. A statement from the meeting reads: ‘The Court of Referees as well as the...
Nazis score direct hit on London hospital
On This Day/November 17 1940 17/11/09A number of patients were killed in a London hospital last night by a direct hit from a high explosive bomb which fell before the ‘alert’ was sounded. Bombers crossed the east coast of England in waves – the largest ever to cross that part of the coast.
Memoirs of a leading Belfast nationalist
On This Day/November 16 1940 16/11/09In 1940 The Irish News began to serialise the memoirs of its former editor and leading Nationalist politician, Thomas J Campbell, KC, MP (1871-1940). Born in Divis St, Campbell began his career as a reporter on The Irish News at its birth in 1891 and rose to become...
Prosperity shines from the windows of Belfast
On This Day/November 14 1940 14/11/09Down in Belfast’s Waring Street, gloomy and forbidding in the hectic activity of the 18th century, Jonathan Swift, the satirist, who spat fire and pamphleteered for the country of his birth, seeks again the smiles of his newest love, Jane Waring.
The mail coach took 15 hours to travel from Dublin to Belfast
On This Day/November 13 1940 13/11/09Louis J Walsh, the Co Derry-born judge and playwright recalled the Irish stage-coach:
Early in the last century Ireland had an extensive system of mail and stage-coaches and there must have been great life on the roads as they rumbled along and stopped at village inns for refreshment.
Britain’s last PM of peace dies at his country home
On This Day/November 12 1940 12/11/09Mr Neville Chamberlain died at 5.30pm on Saturday at his country home, Heckfield House, Hampshire. He was 71.
All Britain yesterday mourned the passing of its ‘premier of peace’, the man who at Munich in 1938 strained every nerve to prevent war and who,
Hitler promises to fight on until the German people achieve victory
On This Day/November 11 1940 11/11/09Germany’s struggle against Britain will ‘‘be continued until the German people achieve victory’’. Thus declared Hitler in the speech to the old guard in Munich last night. The fuhrer spoke for an hour in the Loewenbrau Keller at the annual celebration...
‘Lord Haw Haw’ features in Old Bailey secrecy trial
On This Day/November 10 1940 10/11/09Sentencing a woman to 10 years’ penal servitude at the Old Bailey yesterday for offences under the Official Secrets Act, Mr Justice Tucker disclosed that she had attempted to send by secret means a letter in code to ‘Lord Haw-Haw’.
Ireland will defend ports if you invade, de Valera tells Churchill
On This Day/November 9 1940 09/11/09There can be no question of the handing over of these ports so long as this nation remains neutral. There can be no question of releasing these ports and there can be no question of them being handed over on any conditions whatever.
