Today in Irish History
Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 222
0432-03-17 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
0456-04-05 - St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop.
0512-06-29 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
1014-04-23 - King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf
1264-06-18 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1541-06-18 - Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1546-06-07 - England signs Peace of Andres with Scotland/Ireland
1579-06-17 - Anti-English uprising in Ireland
1580-11-09 - Spanish troops lands in Ireland
1596-04-24 - Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1596-10-25 - Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland
1599-03-27 - Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland
1599-08-15 - Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass - Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1599-09-07 - Earl van Essex & Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty
1602-01-02 - Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English army at Kinsdale
1603-03-30 - Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1607-09-14 - Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
King of England King Charles I
1625-03-27 - Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne
1631-06-20 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1634-02-25 - Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
1634-11-11 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
1641-10-23 - Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - Catholic uprising in Ulster
1647-08-08 - The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill - English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1649-09-11 - Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
1651-10-27 - English troops occupy Limerick Ireland
1689-03-12 - Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1689-07-12 - Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland
1690-03-16 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1690-06-11 - English king Willem III departs to Ireland
1690-06-24 - King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14]
1690-07-01 - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland
1691-10-03 - English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland
Satirist Jonathan Swift
1695-01-13 - Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
1784-02-04 - 1st unmanned balloon flight in Ireland
1785-01-19 - First manned balloon flight in Ireland
1798-05-24 - Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1798-05-26 - British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
1798-05-27 - The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
1798-06-05 - The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
1798-08-22 - French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1798-08-27 - Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
1801-01-01 - The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1804-03-04 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising.
1810-12-15 - 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
1817-07-12 - 1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland)
1832-06-07 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1833-01-19 - Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland
Naturalist Charles Darwin
1837-06-11 - The Broad Street Riot occurres in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans.
1839-01-06 - 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
1843-10-14 - British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy
1847-03-25 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
1847-11-10 - The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1848-07-29 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1850-03-29 - Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
1852-01-01 - National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds
1852-03-01 - Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
1863-04-13 - Battle of Irish Bend, LA (Ft Bisland)
1866-06-01 - Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US
1866-06-02 - Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
1866-06-07 - Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec
1867-11-23 - The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail.
1868-04-07 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and only federal politician.
1870-05-10 - Jem Mace & defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr & 17 minutes, & neither is struck by a punch
1870-05-25 - Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec
1875-09-01 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1877-06-21 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1879-08-21 - The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1883-12-26 - The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
British Prime Minister William Gladstone
1886-04-08 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1897-05-18 - Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
1897-05-18 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
1899-05-08 - The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
1900-01-05 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1900-05-31 - Piet de Law captures Lt-Col Spragges Irish Yeomanry
1901-08-05 - Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4"
1904-02-25 - J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish Natl Theater Society
1907-10-17 - Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1910-10-20 - The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
1912-04-09 - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
1913-01-16 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland
1913-01-30 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
1914-05-25 - British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
1914-05-29 - Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die
1914-09-18 - Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent
1915-05-06 - German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
1916-04-24 - Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1916-04-29 - Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
1918-02-15 - 1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
1918-10-06 - US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die
1919-01-02 - Anti-British uprising in Ireland
1919-01-21 - Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
1919-06-15 - 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
1919-12-22 - Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1920-03-31 - British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
1920-11-28 - Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
1920-12-23 - Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
1921-12-08 - Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1922-01-15 - Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
1922-01-18 - Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
1922-05-23 - "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 628
0521-12-07 - Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
1566-10-13 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)
1593-04-13 - Thomas Wentworth, London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland
1606-06-16 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
1641-06-30 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
1644-06-16 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
1665-04-29 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
1670-11-30 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
1672-01-04 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
1672-03-12 - Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729)
1680-10-19 - John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
1685-03-12 - George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
1688-01-18 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
1694-08-08 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
1700-03-08 - Anne Bonny Irish-American pirate (d. 1782)
1703-02-05 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)
1713-03-29 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
1713-11-24 - Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy)
1718-04-24 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
1718-04-27 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
1718-07-05 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794)
1719-11-23 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
1721-08-13 - Francis Ireland, composer
1722-05-29 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)
1725-09-24 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1730-11-10 - Oliver Goldsmith, Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer) (d. 1774)
1738-12-02 - Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
1751-10-30 - Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
1754-01-15 - Richard Martin, Irish animal rights activist (d. 1834)
1761-12-22 - Dorothea Jordan, Ireland, French comedic actress
1762-06-01 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844)
1763-01-20 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot
1763-06-20 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist
1765-10-08 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer (d. 1831)
1767-01-01 - Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1849)
1775-08-06 - Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
1779-05-28 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
1780-04-13 - Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
1782-07-26 - John Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes)
1782-09-25 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1787-01-05 - John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
1788-09-12 - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder (Disciples of Christ)
1791-12-14 - Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
1792-04-23 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
1793-11-16 - Francis Danby, Irish painter
1794-02-20 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
1797-12-03 - Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore
1798-01-15 - Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller (Fairy legends)
1798-11-01 - Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
1805-08-04 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
1806-01-25 - Daniel Maclise, Irish painter
1807-09-05 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1810-03-10 - Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
1813-12-19 - Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist (ozone)
1814-01-10 - Aubrey de Vere, Irish writer (Victorian Observer)
1814-08-28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1818-04-04 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
1821-02-17 - Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861)
1821-03-19 - William Allingham, Irish poet (Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland)
1822-12-26 - Dion Boucicault, Irish/Us actor/playwright (Rip van Winkle)
1824-03-19 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
1824-12-19 - Hercules Robinson, Ireland, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89, 1895-97)
1826-02-15 - George J Stoney, Irish physicist
1830-12-22 - Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope)
1832-03-12 - Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts
1832-09-30 - Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, Brit gov of Natal (Ireland-Boer war)
1837-05-28 - George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
1838-09-11 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul
Father of the Modern Submarine John Philip Holland (1840-02-29)
1840-02-29 - John Philip Holland, Liscannor, Ireland, father of the modern submarine
1840-03-25 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876)
1840-07-01 - Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer
1840-08-17 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)
1843-01-11 - Charles Yelverton O'Connor, Irish-Australian engineer (d. 1902)
1843-12-21 - Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898)
1844-12-01 - Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland
1846-06-27 - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member
1847-05-30 - Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
1847-11-08 - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula)
1848-01-01 - John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
1851-09-04 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house member
1852-02-24 - George A Moore, Ireland, painter/novelist (Esther Waters)
1852-03-05 - Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
1852-03-15 - Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
1852-09-30 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist/composer
1854-02-09 - Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party)
1854-03-08 - Tom Felix Horan, cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder)
1856-03-20 - Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)
Playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-07-26)
1856-07-26 - George Bernard Shaw, Dublin Ireland, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), (d. 1950)
1857-01-06 - Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931)
1857-02-17 - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
1859-01-30 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
1859-02-01 - Victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
1859-02-01 - Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer (Kiss in Dark)
1860-01-17 - Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (d. 1949)
1860-06-08 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
1861-10-16 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
1864-04-28 - William F A Ellison, Irish clergyman/director (Armagh Observatory)
1864-09-01 - Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916)
1865-03-16 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1953)
1865-06-13 - William Butler Yeats, Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923)
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 19 of 19
1884-05-29 - Irish writer Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd at St. James Church, Paddington, London
1896-06-01 - Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (41) marries Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (41)in Covent Garden, London.
1917-10-21 - Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25)
1931-07-04 - Irish writer (Ulysses) James Joyce and Nora Barnacle finally marry in London registry office after meeting in 1904.
1936-09-12 - "first Irish movie star" actress Maureen O'Sullivan (25) weds film director John Farrow (32)
1968-10-05 - "The Dirty Dozen" actor Charles Bronson (46) weds Jill Ireland
1978-01-24 - Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.
1994-07-18 - "The Cranberries" lead singer Dolores O'Riordan (22) weds Don Burton (32) in Ireland
1999-07-04 - Los Angeles Galaxy soccer star player David Beckham (24) weds Spice Girls singer Victoria Adams (25) at the 560-acre Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Ireland
2001-08-04 - "James Bond" actor Pierce Brosnan (49) weds TV host and journalist Keely Shaye Smith (37) at the 785-year-old Ballintubber Abbey in County Mayo, Ireland
2002-01-05 - Former Atomic Kitten member Kerry Katona (21) weds "Westlife" member Brian McFadden (21) at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Rathfeigh, County Meath, Republic of Ireland
Pop Singer & Beatle Paul McCartney (2002-06-11)
2002-06-11 - Musician Paul McCartney (59) weds former model and anti-landmines campaigner Heather Mills (34) at Castle Leslie in County Monaghan, Ireland
2005-11-02 - Irish TV and radio presenter Sile Seoige (26) weds Glen Mulcahy at St. Brendan's Church in County Offaly
2005-12-03 - Marilyn Manson lead singer Brian Warner (36) weds burlesque performer Dita Von Teese (33) at Castle Gurteen in County Tipperary, Ireland
2006-08-04 - Former Miss Ireland Andrea Roche (30) weds PJ Mansfield at Church of The Nativity of the Blessed Mary in Saggart Village, Dublin
2006-09-14 - Former B*Witched member Lindsay Armaou weds former "911" member Lee Brennan at St. Mary's Parish Church in County Wicklow, Ireland
2006-10-14 - "Celtic Tiger" choreographer Michael Flatley (48) weds fellow dancer Niamh O'Brien at St. Patrick's Church in Fermoy, Ireland
2011-10-18 - Actress, model and singer Bijou Phillips (32) weds actor and disc jockey Danny Masterson (36) at a private castle in Ireland
2011-12-09 - "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer Sinead O'Connor (45) weds Irish therapist Barry Herridge (38) at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 272
0461-03-17 - St Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)
0546-09-09 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
0570-01-15 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
0583-05-16 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
0615-11-23 - Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies
0651-08-31 - Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
1014-04-23 - Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, dies in battle at Clontarf
1171-05-01 - Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies
1318-10-14 - Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland
1487-09-30 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
1535-12-31 - William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)
1559-03-16 - Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
1567-06-02 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain
1583-06-09 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1586-05-05 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
English Monarch Queen Elizabeth I (1603-03-24)
1603-03-24 - Elizabeth I Tudor, [Virgin Queen], of England and Ireland (1558-1603), dies at 69
1605-04-05 - Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (c.1513)
1616-07-20 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier
1641-05-12 - Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48
1643-09-15 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
1667-08-13 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)
1670-06-30 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
1675-03-18 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
1680-07-30 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1680-08-24 - Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
1681-07-01 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
1685-02-02 - Charles II, King of England/Scotland/Ireland (1660-85), dies at 54
1691-08-14 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
1691-12-30 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
1706-04-10 - Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)
1707-04-29 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
1711-06-07 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
1719-07-05 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641)
1721-09-20 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor
1722-03-11 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
1722-04-13 - Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies
1738-03-25 - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1742-09-27 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
1745-11-16 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)
1746-05-22 - Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
1751-04-19 - Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
1764-07-23 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)
1765-10-10 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
1766-01-01 - James III Edward, Old Pretender/king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies at 77
1773-11-19 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
1774-04-04 - Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17
1774-07-11 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
1777-01-10 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
1784-04-26 - Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
1784-08-14 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
1788-10-13 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
1789-12-12 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
1790-01-31 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)
1794-06-14 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
1794-09-04 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
1798-11-19 - Theobald W Tone, Irish nationalist, dies
1803-01-23 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
1803-06-24 - Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88
1803-09-20 - Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed
1806-07-11 - James Smith, Irish/US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 87
1816-07-07 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
1833-06-02 - Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
1835-04-17 - William Henry Ireland, forger (Shakespearean manuscripts), dies
1837-01-11 - John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54
1844-08-29 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1850-08-06 - Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
1856-03-11 - James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
1861-01-17 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1862-05-21 - John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
1863-07-08 - Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 65
1865-04-09 - Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32
1866-03-04 - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
1866-10-26 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1868-05-26 - Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution
1869-01-30 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
1869-08-31 - Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)
1871-02-20 - Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)
1873-02-07 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
1880-03-02 - Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)
1881-11-07 - John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
1883-05-26 - Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
1883-10-22 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (b. 1818)
1885-11-26 - Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71
1886-08-09 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
1889-11-18 - William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68
1890-09-18 - Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor/playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67
1891-10-06 - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
1891-10-11 - Charles Stewart Parnells remains buried in Ireland
1900-05-31 - John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle
Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde (1900-11-30)
1900-11-30 - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
1901-01-08 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1901-02-21 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
1905-09-19 - Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
1907-08-03 - August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59
1909-03-24 - John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37
1911-07-05 - George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85
1912-04-20 - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies at 64
1913-11-25 - Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies
1916-01-08 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
1916-05-04 - Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
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