October

Owen Roe ONeill dies

October 06, 1649

Grattan removed from Irish Privy Council, falsely charged with being a sworn member of United Irishmen

October 06, 1798

Death of Charles Stewart Parnell, champion of tenants rights and co-founder of the Land League; often called the Uncrowned King of Ireland

October 06, 1891

Called the uncrowned King of Ireland Charles Stewart Parnell is remembered by the Irish as a fighter for freedom, as an unsung hero and as a victim of the British Government and of the Catholic …

Birth of C. S. Todd Andrews, revolutionary and public servant, in Dublin

October 06, 1901

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton is born at Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. He and Sir John Douglas Cockcroft were awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles

October 06, 1903

Death of Galway man Pádraic Ó Conaire, who was among the first writers to develop a new modern literature in the Irish language

October 06, 1928

Maeve Kyle, athlete and hockey player, is born in Kilkenny

October 06, 1928

Birth of Gerry Adams

October 06, 1946

Mass demonstrations in Brittany to pressure French government to establish policy to maintain the Breton language.

October 06, 1871

A complaint is made to the House of Commons that Mr Anthony Tenison did, in a violent and notorious manner, assault John Bourke, Esq., a Member of this House, by presenting a pistol to his breast, and threatening to shoot him, on the thirtieth of Decembe

October 07, 1731

Birth of Charles McLaren, one of the founders of the Scotsman newspaper.

October 07, 1782

Birth of Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, Irish womens rights activist.

October 07, 1878