Today on Celtic History on

August 22nd

Total Events: 22

Mon 22 Aug 1960

Beyond the Fringe, an influential satirical revue, opened in Edinburgh.

Tue 22 Aug 1933

The National Guard is banned

Tue 22 Aug 1922

Michael Collins - Irish general - killed

Sun 22 Aug 1920

Violent clashes in Belfast; 30 people are killed between August 23 and August 31; Catholics are expelled from shipyards and engineering works

Thu 22 Aug 1918

Dublin-born WWI ace Dennis Latimer shot down. A Bristol Fighter pilot and the highest scoring ace in 20 Squadron, Latimer shot down 28 enemy aircraft between March and August of 1918. On this date, he and his observer, Lieutenant T.C. Noel, were shot down

Thu 22 Aug 1912

Birth of Irish American actor Gene Kelly

Sat 22 Aug 1908

Birth in Dublin of Mervyn Wall, writer who wrote under the pseudonym of Eugene Welply

Thu 22 Aug 1889

Birth in Belfast of Sean McEntee, Fianna Fail politician

Mon 22 Aug 1887

The Land Act gives courts the power to revise and fix rents

Mon 22 Aug 1881

Second Gladstone Land Act introduces the three Fs - fair rent, fixity of tenure, free sale - and sets up the Land Commission

Thu 22 Aug 1850

First Catholic Synod in Ireland since the Middle Ages in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Paul Cullen summons the synod which runs from this date through September 10

Sun 22 Aug 1847

Birth of Sir Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, musician and composer.

Sat 22 Aug 1846

John Keegan Casey , Fenian, poet and writer of Rising of the Moon is born near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath

Wed 22 Aug 1798

A French force of 1,019 men under General Humbert lands at Killala, Co. Mayo

Wed 22 Aug 1798

Frenchman General Humbert proclaims at Ballina, Co. Mayo, Union, liberty, the Irish Republic

Mon 22 Aug 1791

Theobald Wolfe Tone publishes An argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland

Wed 22 Aug 1742

Birth of Walter Hussey (Burgh), lawyer, politician and orator

Fri 22 Aug 1642

King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham, initiating a Civil War in England between the Royalists (also known as Cavaliers) and Parliament (Roundheads).

Sun 22 Aug 1582

James VI abducted and taken to the Castle of Ruthven by the Earls of Mar and Gowrie the so-called Ruthven Raid.

Tue 22 Aug 1567

James Stewart, Earl of Moray and a half-brother of Mary Queen of Scots, proclaimed Regent of Scotland.

Sat 22 Aug 1282

Devorgilla, Countess of Galloway founded Balliol College, Oxford. She was mother of John Balliol (who acceded to the Scottish throne in, 1292).

Mon 22 Aug 1138

Battle of the Standard at Northallerton in which King David I was defeated by the English.