September

Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet, born.

September 05, 1750

Robert Fergusson (September 05, 1750 - October 16, 1774), Scottish poet, son of Sir William Fergusson, a clerk in the British Linen Company, was born at Edinburgh.

Benjamin Franklins visit to Ireland begins

September 05, 1771

Edmond Sexton Pery resigns as Speaker of the Irish parliament on grounds of ill health. John Foster is unanimously elected to replace him

September 05, 1785

Humbert defeats small government force at Collooney, but suffers serious casualties; he camps at Dromahair. Longford rebels attack Granard and are routed. Westmeath rebels occupy Wilsons Hospital

September 05, 1798

Birth of Richard Chenevix Trench, prelate, philologist and poet; the New English Dictionary, later the Oxford English Dictionary, was begun at his suggestion, in Dublin

September 05, 1890

First Jacobite rising begins as the standard of James III is raised at the Braes or MARCH - Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

September 06, 1715

Jacobitism was the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland (and after 1707, Great Britain).

The Earl of Mar unfurled the standard of the Old Pretender in Braemar at the start of the first Jacobite Uprising.

September 06, 1715

Humbert marches to Drumkeeran. Lake is still tailing Humbert

September 06, 1798

Isaac Butt, barrister, politician and founder of the Home Rule movement, is born in Glenfin, Co. Donegal

September 06, 1813

Birth in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork of Jeremiah ODonovan Rossa, one of the founders of the Fenian Brotherhood

September 06, 1831

Birth of Brinsley MacNamara, novelist, short story-writer and playwright

September 06, 1890

Birth of Bruce Arnold, journalist and author

September 06, 1936