#OnThisDay 1603 Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, submitted to Lord Mountjoy & signed the Treaty of Mellifont. However, Tyrone got off lighter than one would expect. @neilojim1972 & I discussed O’Neill, the Nine Years’ War& Mellifont here:
Sister Kate McCarthy, from Cork, worked with the French Resistance & smuggled 120+ soldiers to safety. Arrested& interrogated by the Gestapo, she was sentenced to death but sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp where she made intentionally faulty Germans parachutes!
Kay McNulty, from Donegal, was the first female computer programmer. She moved to the US, only able to speak Irish & graduated in maths. She worked for the US Army in WW2 calculating missile & ballistic trajectories & worked on the processor for the ENIAC computer.
Mary Elmes, from Cork, rescued around 427 children from Nazi extermination camps during WW2, often hiding them in the boot of her car & driving them to safety. She is the only Irish person to receive Israel’s highest award, being named “Righteous Among the Nations”.
#OnThisDay 1969 Corporal Sean Timothy Doran, from Dublin, was killed in an ambush around Fire Support Base Jackson near Tay Ninh, Vietnam. He was point-man of the platoon & the first killed in the attack. Doran’s tour had started 15 days previous. He was 21.
The Irish at War 