August

Edmund Rice opens a school for poor boys in Waterford - precursor of the schools run by the Christian Brothers

August 15, 1803

Novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott born.

August 15, 1771

Molesworth Phillips, sailor and companion of Captain James Cook, is born in Swords, Co. Dublin

August 15, 1755

On this date, Frederick Hamilton, former MP for Donegal, writes to George I that although the county is well affected, The great scarcity of armes in ye country is beyond anything I could have imagind till about three days ago that I had occasion to sen

August 15, 1715

Oliver Cromwell arrives in Ireland as Commander-in-Chief and Lord Lieutenant with an army of 20,000, a huge artillery train and a large navy

August 15, 1649

MacBeth killed by Malcolm, son of Duncan I, at Lumphanan-Mar, Scotland.

August 15, 1057

Duncan I of Scotland killed in battle by Macbeth at Pitgavney.

August 15, 1040

Duncan I (1001 - August 15, 1040) was a son of Crinan the Thane de Mormaer, lay abbot of Dunkeld, and Princess Bethoc of Scotland.

The first Dáil Éireann is dissolved and the second Dáil convenes

August 16, 1921

Court-martial of Terence MacSwiney, Irish Volunteer and Lord Mayor of Cork

August 16, 1920

National Literary Society is founded

August 16, 1892

Charles Stewart Parnell becomes a Freeman of the city of Dublin

August 16, 1882

Charles Stewart Parnell (June 27, 1846 ? October 06, 1891) was an Irish political leader and one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and the United Kingdom; William Ewart Gladstone …

National Land League of Mayo is founded

August 16, 1879