August

Theobald Wolfe Tone publishes An argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland

August 22, 1791

A French force of 1,019 men under General Humbert lands at Killala, Co. Mayo

August 22, 1798

Frenchman General Humbert proclaims at Ballina, Co. Mayo, Union, liberty, the Irish Republic

August 22, 1798

John Keegan Casey , Fenian, poet and writer of Rising of the Moon is born near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath

August 22, 1846

John Keegan Casey (1846-1870) was born at the height of the famine in Mullingar, County West Meath.

Birth of Sir Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, musician and composer.

August 22, 1847

First Catholic Synod in Ireland since the Middle Ages in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Paul Cullen summons the synod which runs from this date through September 10

August 22, 1850

Second Gladstone Land Act introduces the three Fs - fair rent, fixity of tenure, free sale - and sets up the Land Commission

August 22, 1881

The Land Act gives courts the power to revise and fix rents

August 22, 1887

Birth in Belfast of Sean McEntee, Fianna Fail politician

August 22, 1889

Birth in Dublin of Mervyn Wall, writer who wrote under the pseudonym of Eugene Welply

August 22, 1908

Birth of Irish American actor Gene Kelly

August 22, 1912

Dublin-born WWI ace Dennis Latimer shot down. A Bristol Fighter pilot and the highest scoring ace in 20 Squadron, Latimer shot down 28 enemy aircraft between March and August of 1918. On this date, he and his observer, Lieutenant T.C. Noel, were shot down

August 22, 1918