06 February-Jack Kirby

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Jack Kirby was a comic book artist who was a native of the USA. He was one of the creators of superheroes such as The Avengers and Captain America. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1987. The ‘Jack Kirby Awards’ are named in his honour.

Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg in New York City on August 28^th 1917. A self-taught artist he began working in the comic book industry in 1936. During his career he worked with artists Joe Simon and Stan Lee. With Joe Simon Kirby created the superhero character Captain America. With Stan Lee he created characters such as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk.

Jack Kirby, comic book artist and creator of superheroes such as Captain America, died aged 76 in the year 1994 On This Day.

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Exposition Jack Kirby Angoulême

06 May-Channel Tunnel

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The Channel Tunnel is a rail tunnel which links Folkestone in England with Calais in northern France. The Channel Tunnel runs beneath the English Channel and is 50.5km (31.4) long. Nicknamed The Chunnel it began operations in 1994.

A French engineer, Albert Mathieu, first suggested a tunnel linking England and France in 1802. Despite several initiatives the project did not proceed until The Treaty of Canterbury was signed in February 1986. Two years later tunnelling began on both sides of the English Channel.

Two years after tunnelling began the service tunnel was completed. British and French workers met under the English Channel on December 1^st 1990. The island of Britain was connected to the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age.

Tunnels for freight and passenger trains running on either side of the service tunnel were completed during the following years. Today high-speed passenger trains, freight and automobile shuttles and rail freight trains pass through the Channel Tunnel.

The Channel Tunnel was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II and the French President, François Mitterrand in the year 1994 On This Day.

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15 April-Man On The Bridge

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Arthur Fields was a Dublin street photographer who became known as ‘The Man on The Bridge’. Between the 1930’s and the 1980’s he photographed thousands of ordinary pedestrians on O’Connell Bridge and along O’Connell Street in Dublin. A book of his photographs has recently been published and his work was the subject of an RTE television documentary.

Arthur Fields was born Abraham Feldman in Dublin in 1901. His family, who were Jewish, had left Ukraine in 1885 because of religious persecution. Fields began taking photographs on O’Connell Street in Dublin in the 1930’s. His wife Doreen developed the photographs and arranged for their sale. By the time he retired in 1985 Fields had taken over 180,000 photographs.

Arthur Fields died in the year 1994 On This Day.

Rita and Bernard on O’Connell Street Dublin 1970.

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Dolores and Paddy on O’Connell Street 1971

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12 April-Saoirse Ronan

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Saoirse Ronan is an Oscar nominated actress who grew up in Carlow, Ireland. She is best known for her roles in such films as ‘Atonement,’ ‘The Lovely Bones’, ‘Hanna’ and more recently ‘Brooklyn’. Together with her Oscar nominations Ronan has also received BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe nominations. She made her Broadway debut in early 2016, playing the part of Abigail Williams in the Arthur Miller play The Crucible.

Saoirse Una Ronan was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA in 1994. Both her parents were Irish. When Saoirse was three the family moved to live in Co Carlow Ireland. At the age of nine Ronan made her screen debut when she appeared in the medical drama The Clinic on RTE (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) in 2003. She made her first film appearance in the movie ‘I Could Never Be Your Woman’ in 2007. In 2007 also, she appeared in the highly acclaimed and successful movie ‘Atonement’. Her role made her one of the youngest people ever to be nominated for an Oscar.

During the following years Saoirse Ronan continued to star in several successful movies. These included Hanna (2011), Byzantium (2012) and The Grand Hotel Budapest (2014). On November 6th 2015 the movie Brooklyn was released. Based on the novel of the same name by Colm Tóibín, Saoirse Ronan played the part of Irish emigrant Eilis Lacey. She won widespread acclaim for her role and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

Saoirse Ronan was born in the year 1994 On This Day.

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Saoirse Ronan

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14 March-Linux

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Linux is a computer operating system. It is the leading operating system on servers, mainframe and supercomputers. Though only used on minority of desktop computers, it is used in a vast array of other devices including smartphones and tablet computers. The Linux kernel was first developed by Linus Torvalds, a computer science student. Torvalds developed the software while attending the University of Helsinki.

Linus Benedict Torvalds was born in Helsinki Finland on December 28th 1969. He graduated from the University of Helsinki with a master’s degree in computer science in 1996. During his time at university Torvalds released Linux kernel on October 5th 1991. He is the winner of several awards and continues to direct the development of Linux

Linux kernel Version 1.0 was released in the year 1994 On This Day.

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