Robert Cunningham

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Currently serving as a governor on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), Robert Cunningham is a managing director in the Equity Markets Division of Merrill Lynch. He assumed his senior management responsibilities on the NYSE and American Stock Exchange floor operations in 1996. He has been a member of the NYSE since 1983 and a partner at Merrill Lynch since 1987. He was also on … [Read more...] about Robert Cunningham

September 25, 1917

Thomas Ashe, member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, died from a hunger strike on this day in 1917. Ashe, who was born in Co. Kerry, took part in the Easter Uprising of 1916 as a commander of the Fingal Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. On May 8, 1916, both Ashe and De Valera were court martialled by the British and sentenced to death. He was released but then charged with sedition and returned to prison in August of 1917. There, he began a hunger strike in protest that he be treated with a prisoner of war status.

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