October

Sara Atkinson, a writer on religious and historical subjects is born

October 13, 1823

Government crackdown on Irish Land League jails Parnell and other leaders

October 13, 1881

In 1879, the Irish National Land League was founded and Charles Stewart Parnell was appointed its president.

Charles Stewart Parnell and others are arrested for Land League activities

October 13, 1881

Republican prisoners in Mountjoy prison begin mass hunger strike

October 13, 1923

Second marriage of King Alexander III (to Yolanda de Dreux).

October 14, 1285

Edward Bruce, brother of Robert the Bruce, killed in a battle near Dundalk, Ireland.

October 14, 1318

Victory of Robert the Bruce of Scotland in Yorkshire.

October 14, 1322

After returning from Scotland, Edward and Queen Isabella rested at Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire.

Birth at St James Palace, London of King James VII, second son of King Charles I and brother of King Charles II.

October 14, 1633

After taking Cork on 28 September, Marlbourough takes Kinsale for the Williamites, who now control Munster

October 14, 1690

The Earl of Tyrone dies, and spirit apparently appears promptly to Lady Nicola Hamilton making a number of predictions that turn out to be correct; one of them was that she would die on her 47th birthday

October 14, 1693

Irish Brigade of France fights in the battle of Friedlingen

October 14, 1702

Birth of United Irish leader, Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Carton House in Co. Kildare

October 14, 1763