In 1853 Hall Caine, Manx novelist, was born. In 1974 the Ulster Workers Council Strike was held to bring down the Council of Ireland because the English army failed to enforce the Sunningdale Agreement. Sometime in May, 1169, Fitz Stephen, Herve de Mont Maurice and Maurice Pendergast led an English force consisting mainly of Flemings, in an invasion of Ireland at Bannow, Wexford. Dermaid MacMurrough, king of Leinster, joined them. They marched on Wexford which was a Danish town and then on Dublin, also a Dane town. Roderick O'Connor later gathered an army to march against MacMurrough. A good time was had by all.