October

Birth of poet Patrick Kavanagh in Inishkeen, Co. Monaghan

October 21, 1904

The Queen officially opened the Burrell Collection in Glasgows Pollok Country Park. The museums collection had been donated to the city nearly, 40 years earlier by the shipping magnate Sir William Burrell.

October 21, 1983

Thomas Mortimer who was appointed justiciar on 5 March is replaced by John de Stanley who lands at Howth on this date

October 22, 1389

Rory O'More, Lord Maguire and Sir Pheilim O'Neill initiate a major revolt in Armagh

October 22, 1641

Birth in Dublin of Sir Philip Francis, civil servant, duellist, and gambler; he may have been the author of the Junius Letters

October 22, 1740

John Ponsonby is unanimously re-elected Speaker of the Irish parliament

October 22, 1761

Foundation stones of main Post Office and National Museum of Scotland laid by Prince Albert in his last public engagement before his death.

October 22, 1861

A firedamp explosion at Blantyre Colliery killed, 207 miners.

October 22, 1877

Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist died.

October 22, 1895

Daniel Owen was born in Mold, the youngest of six children.

Charles Lynch, pianist, is born in Parkgariff, Co. Cork

October 22, 1906

John Boyd Dunlop Scottish inventor of the pneumatic rubber tire died.

October 22, 1917

Born into a farming family in Dreghorn in Ayrshire, John Boyd Dunlop was a veterinary surgeon by profession, having qualified at Edinburgh Veterinary College (now part of Edinburgh University ) when …

Treaty between King John Balliol of Scotland and King Philippe IV of France which promised mutual help against the English, the start of the Auld Alliance.

October 23, 1295