#OTD in Irish History | 28 February:

28/02/2023.Reading time 10 minutes.

1713 – Henry Pyne, MP for Dungarvan, aged about 24 and the father of three children, is killed in a duel with Theophilus Biddulph at Chelsea Fields, London; Biddulph will later be convicted of manslaughter. 1790 – The Northern Whig Club is founded in Belfast. 1799 – William Dargan, railway engineer and philanthropist, is born […]

#OTD in Irish History | 8 February:

08/02/2023.Reading time 10 minutes.

1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt is quickly crushed. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years’ War in 1599. In 1601 he led an abortive coup d’état against the government […]

#OTD in Irish History | 29 August:

29/08/2022.Reading time 9 minutes.

1170 – Richard de Clare (Strongbow) marries Aoife Ní MacMurrough and sets a precedent for Norman rule in Ireland. 1729 – Birth of David La Touche, banking magnate and MP. 1798 – Cornwallis reaches Tuam, Co Galway. 1803 – Samuel Neilson, one of the founder members of the Society of United Irishmen and the founder […]

#OTD in Irish History | 16 August:

16/08/2022.Reading time 13 minutes.

1793 – The Convention Act (1793) was aimed at preventing the recurrence of events like the Convention of the Volunteers in 1782 where armed groups (of Protestants) from various parts of Ireland assembled in Dublin and were able to overawe the Government at a time when there were few troops in the country. Contrary to […]

#OTD in Irish History | 8 August:

08/08/2022.Reading time 11 minutes.

1588 – The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English, with some Spaniards slain upon reaching the coasts of Ireland and some survivors remaining. 1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan’s Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces. 1694 – Birth of Presbyterian philosopher, Francis Hutcheson, […]

#OTD in Irish History | 5 August:

05/08/2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

1722 – Birth of William Henry Fortescue, politician and sportsman, who tried unsuccessfully in the 1760s to introduce a bill ‘to preserve partridges and hares and to take away the lives of above half the dogs in the nation’. 1829 – Birth of William Coffey VC DCM in Knocklong, Co Limerick. He was an Irish […]

#OTD in Irish History | 28 February:

28/02/2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 8 February:

08/02/2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 29 August:

29/08/2021.Reading time 9 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 16 August:

16/08/2021.Reading time 13 minutes.

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