October

Premiere of Percy French’s play The Immigrant’s Letter

October 07, 1910

A cabinet committee is appointed to consider Irish self government

October 07, 1919

Birth of Thomas Kineally, Irish Australian author of Schindler’s List which was originally called Schindlers Ark

October 07, 1935

Rev Henry Duncan, founder of the first savings bank, born in the Manse at Lochrutton.

October 08, 1774

Birth in Dublin of Richard DAlton Williams. He is educated at Carlow Academy and studies medicine at Saint Vincents Hospital, Dublin. He becomes a member of the Young Ireland movement and contributes poetry to The Nation under the pseudonym Shamrock.

October 08, 1822

John Cowper Powys, Welsh novelist, born.

October 08, 1872

John Cowper Powys (1872-1963). The Welsh novelist, essayist, and poet is known chiefly for his long panoramic novels.

Edith Oenone Somerville, Irish novelist, dies in Castletownshend, Co. Cork.In her late twenties, she meets her second cousin Violet Florence Martin who writes under the pseudonym Martin Ross. They become lifelong companions and literary partners, collabor

October 08, 1949

King James IV ratified the Charter incorporating the Surgeons and Barbers.

October 09, 1506

The Navigation Act provides that goods imported to any Commonwealth lands shall be carried in English ships only

October 09, 1651

William Ellis Jones Welsh bard known as Gwilym Cawrdaf was born

October 09, 1796

First tenant protection society established at Callan, Co. Kilkenny.

October 09, 1849

Birth of golfer Harry The Brad Bradshaw near Delgany, Co. Wicklow

October 09, 1913