September

Frank OConnor, (pseudonym of Michael ODonovan), short-story writer and author of poetic translations from Irish is born in Cork

September 17, 1903

Birth of Chaim Herzog, former president of Israel, born in Belfast and educated in Dublin

September 17, 1920

The Free State is elected to the council of the League of Nations

September 17, 1930

Ten young men, potato-pickers from Achill Island, die when a bothy catches fire on a farm at Kirkintilloch, Scotland

September 17, 1937

First action of Glyn Dwrs revolt as Welsh rebels capture town of Ruthin.

September 18, 1400

Owain Glyn Dwr, leader of the last major armed Welsh protest against English rule, was both formidable tactician and visionary statesman.

Theatre Royal, Glasgow, became the first theatre in Britain to be lit by gas.

September 18, 1818

James Standish OGrady, novelist, is born in Castletownbere, Co. Cork

September 18, 1846

Anne Devlin, friend and comrade of Robert Emmett, dies in Dublin

September 18, 1851

Kelly and Timothy Deasy are rescued in a Fenian attack on a police van in Manchester during which a police sergeant is shot dead

September 18, 1867

Kathleen Behan, née Kearney, Mother of All the Behans and folk singer is born in Dublin

September 18, 1889

Home Rule Act on Statute Book but is suspended for the duration of World War

September 18, 1914

Stephen Hayes, a former IRA chief of staff, is kidnapped on 30 June; he later claims to have been court martialled and tortured by the IRA; Seán McCaughey is convicted of his kidnapping on this date

September 18, 1941