#OTD in Irish History | 2 November:

02/11/2023.Reading time 11 minutes.

All Souls’ Day 1719 – The Toleration Act for Protestant Dissenters is passed. 1752 – Philip Twisden, Bishop of Raphoe and son-in-law of the politician Thomas Carter, dies bankrupt on this date, having been shot while allegedly masquerading as a highwayman. 1795 – Birth of William Grattan Tyrone Power, known professionally as Tyrone Power, was […]

#OTD in Irish History | 13 January:

13/01/2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

1695 – Jonathan Swift was ordained as a priest in the Church of Ireland. 1702 – Birth of Thomas Arthur Lally in Romans, France. He was a French General of Irish Jacobite ancestry. Lally commanded French forces, including two battalions of his own red-coated Regiment of Lally of the Irish Brigade, in India during the […]

#OTD in Irish History | 28 December:

28/12/2022.Reading time 8 minutes.

In the Liturgical Calendar, today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents and, in Irish folklore, it was very unlucky to start something new. It was also believed that whichever day of the week the feast fell, that day would be unlucky throughout the following year. 1673 – Birth of Marmaduke Coghill (in Dublin), lawyer, […]

#OTD in Irish History | 2 November:

02/11/2022.Reading time 11 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 13 January:

13/01/2022.Reading time 9 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 28 December:

28/12/2021.Reading time 8 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 2 November:

02/11/2021.Reading time 11 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 13 January:

13/01/2021.Reading time 9 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 28 December:

28/12/2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 2 November:

02/11/2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

1719 – The Toleration Act for Protestant Dissenters is passed. 1752 – Philip Twisden, Bishop of Raphoe and son-in-law of the politician Thomas Carter, dies bankrupt on this date, having been shot while allegedly masquerading as a highwayman. 1795 – Birth of William Grattan Tyrone Power, known professionally as Tyrone Power, was an Irish stage […]

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