September

Jeremiah ODonovan Rossa, Fenian, is born in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork

September 10, 1831

In Thurles, it is the final day of the first canonical synod of the Irish church, summoned by Paul Cullen

September 10, 1850

HRH Duke of York opened the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

September 10, 1897

While serving in the Dublin Fusiliers during World War I, Irish poet Tom Kettle dies in attack on Ginchy

September 10, 1916

Dail Eirean outlawed by the English as a dangerous association.

September 10, 1919

The Irish Free State is admitted into the League of Nations

September 10, 1923

Victory of Wallace at Stirling bridge, Scotland

September 11, 1297

On September 11, 1297, Wallace achieved victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Battle of Stirling Bridge, Wallace (as famously portrayed by Mel Gibson in Braveheart) defeats Edward I.

September 11, 1297

Massacre at Drogheda. Cromwell captures the town and slaughters the garrison

September 11, 1649

James Thomson, Scots author of Rule Britannia, born.

September 11, 1700

John Bligh, former MP for Athboy, who suffers from the delusion that he is a teapot, marries suddenly and unexpectedly at nearly 50 years of age. Between now and his death in 1781 he will father at least seven children, in spite of his initial alarm that

September 11, 1766

Dail Eireann is suppressed as a dangerous association by the British government and membership is deemed to be a crime

September 11, 1919