February 19: TODAY in Irish History (by IrishmanSpeaks) 
1883: County Galway born Confederate General Patrick Theodore Moore dies in Richmond aged 61.
Patrick Moore
1887: Ireland wins its first ever game in international soccer beating Wales 4-1 in Belfast. Prior to 1921 and the partition of the country, Ireland was represented by one national team.
1904: Birth of Irish author Muiris Ó Súilleabháin whose memoir Fiche Bliain ag Fás (Twenty Years a ‘Growing) tells of his youth while growing up on the Great Blasket Island ( a tiny windswept isle of the coast of Kerry)
1942: Phil Coulter is born in Derry. Coulter is one of Ireland’s most successful composers and arrangers.
Composer Phil Coulter
He has written hit songs for Sandy Shaw – Puppet on a String, Cliff Richard – Congratulations and for the Bay City Rollers. His most evocative and personal song may be a song written about his first son who has Downs Syndrome – Scorn Not His Simplicity. Luke Kelly of the Dubliners made this song his own.
Learn more about Ireland? See these images and more in the acclaimed For the Love of Being Irish
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