Wednesday, January 6, 2021

The night of the big wind in Ireland

On the night of January 6, the feast of the Epiphany, in 1839 the entire island of Ireland experienced a once-in-300-years wind, damaging or destroying over 20 per cent of Dublin's houses.

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