October 2005 in Britain and Ireland

October 2005 In Britain And Ireland


This page deals with current events in the English-speaking places of Europe. These are England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and Gibraltar.

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Read more about October 2005 In Britain And Ireland:  Deaths in October, Ongoing Events, 25 October 2005 (Tuesday), 20 October 2005 (Thursday), 19 October 2005 (Wednesday), 17 October 2005 (Monday), 6 October 2005 (Thursday), 3 October 2005 (Monday), 2 October 2005, British and Irish Events By Month

Famous quotes containing the words october, britain and/or ireland:

    “The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I’ th’ world’s volume
    Our Britain seems as of it, but not in’ t;
    In a great pool a swan’s nest.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.”
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)