#OTD in Irish History | 16 October:

16/10/2023.Reading time 13 minutes.

In the Liturgical calendar, today is the Feast Day of St. Gall (Gallen, or Gallus, c. 550 – c. 646). He was an Irish disciple and one of the traditionally twelve companions of Saint Columbanus on his mission from Ireland to the continent. 1588 – Birth of Franciscan friar and historian, Luke Wadding, in Co […]

#OTD in Irish History | 9 September:

09/09/2023.Reading time 13 minutes.

In the Liturgical calendar, this is the feast day of St Ciarán of Clonmacnoise. He was one of the early Irish monastic saints and Irish bishop. He is sometimes called Ciarán the Younger to distinguish him from Saint Ciarán of Saighir. He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He dies on this date […]

#OTD in Irish History | 9 June:

09/06/2023.Reading time 15 minutes.

In the Liturgical calendar, today is the Feast day of St Columba (St Colmcille, ‘dove of the church’). He was an abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political institution […]

#OTD in Irish History | 31 May:

31/05/2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

1430 – Charges are made against Thomas Foster, Archdeacon of Glendalough, that he has sold the lands of the dignity, has kept concubines, has had offspring, is ignorant of letters and does not know the language of the country: if they are true, he is to be deprived on this date. 1744 – Birth of […]

#OTD in Irish History | 10 February:

10/02/2023.Reading time 11 minutes.

1800 – The House of Lords votes for the Act of Union which sees Ireland lose its own parliament, direct rule is imposed on Ireland and ‘the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland’ is created. 1842 – Birth of astronomer and writer, Agnes Mary Clerke, in Skibbereen, Co Cork. In 1885, she published her […]

#OTD in Irish History | 16 October:

16/10/2022.Reading time 13 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 9 September:

09/09/2022.Reading time 13 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 9 June:

09/06/2022.Reading time 15 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 31 May:

31/05/2022.Reading time 9 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 10 February:

10/02/2022.Reading time 11 minutes.

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