October

SS Rowan sank off the Rhinns of Galloway, near Corsewall Point with, 34 casualties.

October 09, 1921

Ornithologist and painter Archibald Thorburn died.

October 09, 1935

Death of Lord Home of the Hirsel, also known as Sir Alec Douglas-Home, formerly Foreign Secretary and UK Prime Minister.

October 09, 1995

Patrick, Bishop of Dublin, dies in a shipwreck

October 10, 1084

The Linen Board meets for the first time

October 10, 1711

During his visit to Ireland, Benjamin Franklin attends a meeting of the House of Commons on this date

October 10, 1771

Birth in Co. Tipperary of Fr. Theobald Matthew, “The Apostle of Temperance” and campaigner against alcohol

October 10, 1790

Writer and geologist Hugh Miller born on the Black Isle, Cromarty.

October 10, 1802

The Edinburgh Review first published to erect a higher standard of merit, and secure a bolder and purer taste in literature, and to apply philosophical principles and the maxims of truth and humanity to politics.

October 10, 1802

Birth in Templemore, Co. Tipperary of Charles Stanley Monck, the first Governor General of Canada

October 10, 1819

Magee College is opened as a combined arts and Presbyterian theological college in Derry-Londonderry

October 10, 1865

Irish Transvaal Committee formed to aid Boers against the English.

October 10, 1899

The name of Maud Gonne was well known among Irish nationalists.