January

• January 1, 1602 - Hugh O'Neill, 2nd earl of Tyrone, defeated at Kinsale

• January 1, 1710 - Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, an Irish writer, is born

• January 1, 1767 - Maria Edgeworth, Irish author, is born

• January 1, 1790 - James Wills, clergyman and writer, is born in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon

• January 1, 1801 - Act of Union goes into Effect, merging the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland

• January 1, 1801 - George Benn, businessman and historian of Belfast, is born in Tandragee, Co. Armagh

• January 1, 1862 - Harland & Wolff Shipyard founded - built the RMS Titanic

• January 1, 1871 - Gladstone's Irish Church Act which disestablishes the Church of Ireland takes effect

• January 1, 1880 - Gretta Bowen, artist, is born in Dublin

• January 1, 1892 - Annie Moore, 15, of County Cork, 1st Irish Immigrant through Ellis Island

• January 2, 1602 - Aguila surrenders Kinsale to Mountjoy

• January 2, 1663 - Illiam Dhone, Manx patrion shot

• January 2, 1793 - Thomas Muir, lawyer and political activist, arrested and charged with sedition.

• January 2, 1793 - Catholic Committee petition is presented to the king

• January 2, 1880 - Parnell begins his tour of the United States

• January 2, 1910 - James Joyce and Eileen Joyce leave Dublin for Trieste, Italy

• January 2, 1920 - Recruitment begins for the Black and Tans

• January 3, 1590 - Robert Boyd, prominent statesman of independent Scotland, died

• January 3, 1905 - Pádraic Fallon, poet and playwright, is born in Athenry, Co. Galway

• January 3, 1956 - Mel Gibson, born

• January 4, 1581 - James Ussher, scholar and Archbishop of Armagh and Dublin is born

• January 4, 1642 - English Civil War, attacks the English parliament

• January 4, 1792 - The Northern Star newpaper is published

• January 4, 1875 - Thomas Stephens, died

• January 4, 1921 - Martial law is extended to counties Clare, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford

• January 4, 1965 - T.S. Eliot, died

• January 4th - Handsel Monday, traditionally the day on which gifts were exchanged in Scotland

• January 5, 1787 - John Burke, born

• January 5, 1871 - 33 Fenian prisoners are released by the British

• January 5, 1885 - Hugh O'Brien is sworn in as Bostons first Irish mayor

• January 5, 1922 - Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer, died

• January 5, 1929 - Playwright Brian Friel, author of Dancing at Lughnasa, is born

• January 5, 1984 - Ronald MacDonald Douglas, prominent Scottish nationalist died.

• January 5, 2005 - Holiday - England Glastonbury Thorn Day

• January 6, 1066 - King Harold of England crowned

• January 6, 1156 - Norse fleet defeated at the Battle of the Epiphany, Scotland

• January 6, 1412 - Joan of Arc Domremy, martyr

• January 6, 1562 - Shane O'Neill submits to Queen Elizabeth at Whitehall, but rebels again within months

• January 6, 1654 - Commissioners are appointed to allot the land of Oliver Cromwells Connacht plantation to transplanted Irish

• January 6, 1760 - Richard Polwhele, a Cornish historian was born.

• January 6, 1794 - Frances Ball who, as Mother Mary Teresa founded the Sisters of Loretto, is born in Dublin

• January 6, 1800 - Author Anna Maria Hall, née Fielding, is born in Dublin

• January 6, 1801 - Evan Davies, Welsh Bard known as Myfir Morganwg, born

• January 6, 1839 - Night Of The Big Wind

• January 26, 1898 - Colonel James Fitzmaurice, Irelands greatest aviator, is born in Dublin

• January 6, 1931 - P.J. Kavanagh, born

• January 6, 1939 - Irish Freedom 1st published

• January 6, 1940 - Johnny Giles,Irish footballer, born

• January 6, 1941 - Noel Pearson, born

• January 7, 1878 - General John O'Neill, died

• January 7, 1922 - Anglo Irish Treaty Ratified - creating Free State

• January 8, 678 - St. Nathalan, died

• January 8, 1547 - Henry VIII suppresses the Chapter of St Patricks Cathedral, Dublin

• January 8, 1707 - Earl of Stair, held responsible for the massacre of Glencoe, died.

• January 8, 1789 - Last meeting of the Breton National Assembly

• January 8, 1820 - Andrew Hardie, executed.

• January 8, 1860 - The Church of St Andrew in Suffolk Street, Dublin, is destroyed by fire

• January 8, 1871 - James Craig, Ist Viscount Craigavon, born

• January 8, 1873 - Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain is founded

• January 8, 1876 - Lucien Bul, born

• January 8, 1916 - Evacuation of Gallipoli Peninsula

• January 8, 1918 - Arthur Griffin is elected second president of Ireland by Dáil Éireann

• January 9, 1514 - Dutchess Anne, died.

• January 9, 1642 - The Island Magee massacre occurred in 1642

• January 9, 1799 - Income Tax introduced in England

• January 9, 1811 - The first women's golf tournament in Musselburgh, Scotland

• January 9, 1904 - George Henry Perrott Buchanan, born

• January 9, 1922 - Arthur Griffith is elected Taoiseach

• January 9, 1929 - Brian Friel, born

• January 10, 1642 - King Charles I and family flee London

• January 10, 1751 - Cornelius Bolton, born

• January 10, 1814 - Aubrey Thomas De Vere, born

• January 10, 1871 - Battle of LeMans

• January 10, 1900 - Harry Kernoff, born

• January 10, 1945 - Rod Stewart, born

• January, 11 1815 - John A MacDonald, born

• January 11, 1818 - Daniel Silvan Evans, born

• January 11, 1836 - George Sigerson, born

• January 11, 1921 - British government bans arms, "Truce of War" policy

• January 11, 1925 - David Wylie Bleakley, born

• January 11, 1999 - Naomi Mitchison, died

• January 12, 1709 - Benjamin Burton, born

• January 12, 1729 - Edmund Burke, born

• January 12, 1765 - Kinsale by-election was triggered by the death of John Folliott

• January 12, 1885 - Thomas Ashe, born

• January 12, 1885 - Molly Allgood, born

• January 12, 1930 - Jennifer Johnston, born

• January 12, 1947 - Matt Molloy of the Chieftains, born

• January 13, 1695 - Jonathan Swift becomes Dean of St Patricks Cathedral, Dublin

• January 13, 1796 - John Anderson, died

• January 13, 1800 - Daniel O'Connell makes his first public speech, opposing Union with England

• January 13, 1880 - Herbert Brenon, film director of Peter Pan and Beau Geste, born

• January 13, 1893 - Keir Hardie founded Independent Labour Party

• January 13, 1915 - Mary Slessor, missionary in West Africa, died

• January 13, 1931 - Mary Clarke, a Maryknoll Nun and martyr, born

• January 13, 1935 - Eibhin Nic Choill, prominent Irish Celtic scholar and linguist, died

• January 13, 1941 - James Joyce, died

• January 13, 603 - St Kentigern, died

• January 14 , 1255 - Alexander III, King of Scots, chaired an Assembly at Holyrood to settle dispute

• January 14 , 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow

• January 14, 1753 - George Berkeley, died

• January 14, 1775 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Provost of Trinity College duels with William Doyle

• January 14, 1871 - Alexander Sullivan, the last King's Serjeant of Ireland born

• January 14, 1872 - Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye Terrier dog, died

• January 14, 1937 - Eamon de Valera new 1937 Irish Constitution

• January 15, 1775 - Thomas Dermody, classical scholar and poet is born

• January 15, 1798 - Thomas Crofton Croker, antiquarian and folklorist, is born in Cork

• January 15, 1800 - Last session of the Irish Parliament begins

• January 15, 1821 - Thomas Clarke Luby, Fenian, is born in Dublin

• January 15, 1835 - Patrick Guiney, soldier and politician, born in Parkstown, Co. Tipperary

• January 15, 1860 - Eleanor Hull, Irish Celtic Scholar is born

• January 15, 1861 - Terence MacManus, the Young Irelander, dies in San Francisco

• January 15, 1920 - Sinn Féin takes control of most borough and urban councils in local elections

• January 15, 1939 - IRA Army Council declare war on England

• January 15, 1961 - Dave MacAuley, boxer, born

• January 15, 1973 - Neil M Gunn, author, died

• January 15, 1988 - Sean McBride, Irish patriot and human rights activist, dies

• January 16, 1700 - Sir Richard Levinge, an Irish MP, committed to the Tower of London

• January 16, 1707 - The Treaty of Union of Scottish and Westminster Parliaments ratified

• January 16, 1816 - Frances Browne, writer, is born in Stranorlar, Co. Donegal

• January 16, 1822 - Thomas Clark Luby, co-founder of the Fenian Brotherhood, is born

• January 16, 1900 - Frank Devlin, badminton player, is born in Dublin

• January 16, 1904 - Michael Davitt condemms attacks on Jews in Limerick

• January 16, 1913 - Home Rule bill passes in the House of Commons

• January 16, 1922 - Michael Collins takes over control of Dublin Castle

• January 16, 1935 - Gobnaitt NiBhruadair (Albinia Broderick), Irish republican activist, dies

• January 16, 1945 - 52nd Highland Light Infantry and 1st Commando Brigade cross from Holland

• January 17, 1649 - Marquis of Ormond James Butler negotiated a peace treaty

• January 17, 1746 - Last Jacobite victory at the Battle of Falkirk

• January 17, 1856 - Joseph Haydn, Irish journalist, dies

• January 17, 1860 - Douglas Hyde, playwright, born

• January 17, 1861 - Lola Montez (Marie Gilbert), dancer and courtesan dies in New York

• January 17, 1866 - George Petrie, folk music collector, dies

• January 17, 1873 - T.C. Murray, playwright, born

• January 18, 1414 - John Stanley, first Lord of Mann, dies

• January 18, 1667 - Irish Cattle exports to England are prohibited

• January 18, 1671 - Catholic gentry present petition to Charles II

• January 18, 1779 - Cement Patent No. 1207 is issued to Sligo-man Bryan Higgins

• January 18, 1811 - Charles Kean, actor, is born in Waterford

• January 18, 1831 - Daniel O’Connell is convicted of conspiracy

• January 18, 1913 - The Irish Transport and General Workers Union strike ends

• January 18, 1928 - Birth of Daniel Bradley, physicist

• January 18, 1930 - Breandán Ó hEithir, writer and broadcaster, is born

• January 18, 1934 - Joseph Devlin, Irish nationalist dies

• January 18, 1964 - Birth of Richard Dunwoody, jockey, in Comber, Co. Down

• January 19, 1643 - Battle of Braddock Downs, Cromwellian army defeated by Cornish Royalists

• January 19, 1736 - James Watt, Scottish steam engine inventor, born

• January 19, 1739 - Birth of Arthur Wolfe

• January 19, 1787 - Mary Aikenhead, born, founder of the Irish Sisters of Charity and St. Vincent’s Hospital Dublin

• January 19, 1793 - Hugh Cane, MP for Tallow, dies from a fall down stairs

• January 19, 825 - Iona raided for second time by Norsemen

• January 20, 1621 - Patents are granted for plantations in parts of Leitrim, Kings County, Queens County and Westmeath

• January 20, 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Stirling

• January 20, 1763 - Birth of Theobald Wolfe Tone

• January 20, 1841 - James Armour, Presbyterian minister and political activist, is born

• January 20, 1902 - Kevin Barry, medical student and nationalist revolutionary, is born

• January 20, 1902 - John Redmond criticizes the use of concentration camps by the British in South Africa

• January 20, 1916 - Secret negotiations result in alliance of the Irish Citizen Army with the Irish Republican Brotherhood

• January 20, 1964 - Alfred Chester Beatty, Irish library and art patron, died

• January 21, 1290 - Sweetheart Abbey, near Dumfries, founded by Devorguilla, mother of John Balliol.

• January 21, 12600 - Charles Blount, 8th Lord Mountjoy, becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland

• January 21, 1864 - Chidley Coote, granted £500 for the upkeep of six lighthouses

• January 21, 1793 - Louis XVI is executed in Paris, attended by an Irish priest, Fr. Edgeworth Lord Edward FitzGerald

• January 21, 1861 - John Keats writes his poem - On a Lock of Miltons Hair

• January 21, 1876 - James Larkin, organizer of Irish Transport and General Workers Union, is born

• January 21, 1919 - Irish War of Independence begins with raid at Soloheadbeg - Tipperary

• January 21, 1919 - Dáil Éireann, meets for the very first time in Dublin

• January 21, 1919 - Two members of Royal Irish Constabulary are shot dead by Irish Volunteers in an ambush, Tipperary

• January 20, 1920 - IRA attacks Drombrane barracks, Co. Tipperary

• January 22, 1570 - James Stewart, the Regent Moray, murdered

• January 22, 1689 - William of Orange and Mary become joint sovereigns of the UK

• January 22, 1761 - Henry Welbore Agar-Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden, born

• January 22, 1788 - Scottish Author George Gordon (Byron) was born

• January 22, 1856 - Alfred Denis Godley, classical scholar and writer, is born in Ashfield, Co. Cavan

• January 22, 1901 - Queen Victoria dies; Edward VII accedes to the throne

• January 22, 1913 - Cardinal William Conway, Primate of All Ireland from 1963-1977, is born

• January 22, 1925 - Raymond Crotty, radical economist, is born in Co. Kilkenny

• January 23, 1647 - Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament

• January 23, 1774 - Dudley Cosby (Baron Sydney), former MP for Carrick, commits suicide

• January 23, 1803 - Arthur Guinness, brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery, dies

• January 23, 1861 - Katherine Tynan, poet, novelist and journalist, is born

• January 23, 1881 - William O'Brien, trade unionist, is born

• January 23, 1893 - Dr. William Price self styled Welsh Druid and Chartist, dies

• January 23, 1898 - The United Irish League, a nationalist electoral organization, is founded by William OBrien

• January 23, 1969 - Willie Clancy, Irish folklorist and traditional Uilleann bagpiper, died

• January 24, 1679 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.

• January 24, 1851 - Charles Plummer, Irish language scholar and editor of Lives of the Irish Saints, is born

• January 24, 1920 - Percy French gives his last concert in Glasgow

• January 24, 1920 - Percy French, writer of many popular Irish songs, dies

• January 24, 1921 - Patrick Scott, artist, is born in Kilbrittain, Co. Cork

• January 24, 1933 - Fianna Fáil wins a general election

• January 24, 1976 - Roman Emperor Hadrian, born

• January 25, 1327 - King Edward III accedes to British throne

• January 25, 1356 - The 1st Earl of Desmond dies; Kildare is his replacement as justiciar

• January 25, 1627 - Robert Boyle, physicist, chemist and alchemist, is born in Lismore, Co. Waterford

• January 25, 1759 - Robert Burns - Scottish Poet - born.

• January 25, 1777 - The Earl of Buckinghamshire, is sworn in as lord lieutenant

• January 25, 1817 - First edition of the Edinburgh-based Scotsman newspaper, published

• January 25, 1831 - Edmund Hogan, Jesuit and scholar, is born in Cork

• January 25, 1924 - Charles McCarthy, trade unionist, is born in Cork

• January 25, 1924 - Tomás Mac Giolla, republican and socialist, and later, Workers Party leader, is born near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary

• January 26, 1316 - Edward the Bruce and Irish allies engage English forces at the Battle of Ardscull, Ireland

• January 26, 1699 - The second session of William IIIs second Irish parliament ends on this date

• January 26, 1716 - Lord George Sackville, soldier, politician and MP for Portarlington, born

• January 26, 1799 - Thomas Charles Wright, officer in Bolivars army, is born in Drogheda, Co. Louth

• January 26, 1861 - One O'Clock gun fired for the first time from Edinburgh Castle

• January 26, 1871 - Sir Arthur du Cros, pioneer of pneumatic tyre industry, is born in Dublin

• January 26, 1878 - Kirkpatrick McMillan, Scottish inventor of the bicycle, died

• January 26, 1904 - Seán MacBride, IRA leader, politician, head of Amnesty International, born

• January 26, 1907 - Synges Playboy of the Western World is performed for the first time at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, riot ensues

• January 26, 1908 - The 1st Glasgow Scout troop was registered, the first to be formed

• January 27, 1550 - Sir Humphrey Arundell - leader of the Cornish Prayer Book Rebellion - executed.

• January 27, 1783 - Glasgow Herald newspaper first published. It is the longest continuously published daily newspaper in Britain.

• January 27, 1784 - Their enlistments expired, the men of the 77th Highland Infantry mutiny against their English officers

• January 27, 1885 - Charles Stewart Parnell turns the first sod for the West Clare Railway

• January 27, 1926 - First public demonstration of TV by John Logie Baird.

• January 27, 1944 - Birth of Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, founder of NI Peace Movement

• January 27, 1975 - Mother Mary Martin, founder of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, dies in Drogheda

• January 28, 1610 - The crown and the Irish Society of London, agree to carry out the plantation of Derry, Coleraine and part of Tyrone

• January 28, 1635 - The City of London and the Irish Society of London are found guilty of mismanagement and neglect

• January 28, 1742 - Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene, is born in Co. Antrim

• January 28, 1786 - By charter, the Irish Academy becomes the Royal Irish Academy

• January 28, 1807 - Sir Robert McClure, polar explorer and discoverer of the North-West Passage, born in Co. Wexford

• January 28, 1818 - The Iberno-Celtic Society is founded to preserve and publish the best ancient Irish literature

• January 28, 1829 - William Burke, murderer and body snatcher of Burke and Hare fame, executed.

• January 28, 1852 - Louis Brennan, inventor, is born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo

• January 28, 1873 - Patrick Malley is killed by his son William Malley at Calla

• January 28, 1877 - George Fitzmaurice, Irish Renaissance playwright, is born

• January 28, 1892 - Birth in Limerick of David Mary Tidmarsh , WWI Ace

• January, 28 1908 - Jimmy Shand, Scottish country dance band leader, born.

• January 28, 1935 - W.B. Yeats - Irish writer - died

• January 28, 1939 - Death of William Butler Yeats

• January 28, 1941 - The Emergency Powers Act provides for the censorship of press messages to places outside the Free State

• January 29, 1716 - Scottish Jacobite army begins retreat

• January 29, 1768 - Oliver Goldsmiths, The Good-Natured Boy is first performed at Londons Covent Garden

• January 29, 1794 - Archibald Hamilton Rowan, United Irishman, tried on charge of distributing seditious paper

• January 29, 1840 - John Miller Nicholson, Manx artist and photographer, born

• January 29, 1848 - Greenwich Mean Time adopted by Scotland.

• January 29, 1928 - Earl Haig, Commander in Chief of British forces 1915-18, founder of the British Legion, died.

• January 29, 1967 - The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) is formed

• January 30 1649 - King Charles I executed at Whitehall.

• January 30, 1845 - Birth of Kitty O'Shea, mistress and later, the wife of Parnell

• January 30, 1859 - Edward Martyn, playwright, co-founder of Irish Literary Theatre, and Sinn Féin president, is born

• January 30, 1864 - The National Gallery of Ireland, opens

• January 30, 1865 - Birth of John Hughes, sculptor, in Dublin

• January 30, 1900 - The Irish Party reunites ten years after it split

• January 30, 1920 - Tomás MacCurtain is elected Lord Mayor of Cork for Sinn Féin

• January 30, 1947 - Jim Larkin, Irish labor leader dies

• January 30, 1968 - Bloody Sunday, Derry City, North Ireland

• January 30, 1984 - Death of Luke Kelly, lead vocalist and 5-string banjo member of the Dubliners

• January 30, 1998 - Ship-wrecked Elizabeth McClean emerges in sand

• January 31, 1800 - William Pitt, the younger, Prime Minister of Britain, advocates the union of Britain and Ireland

• January 31, 1864 - Matilda Knowles, born

• January 31, 1881 - Anna Parnell sets up the Committee of the Ladies Land League in Dublin

• January 31, 1913 - The Ulster Volunteer Force is founded by the Unionist Council, posing a threat to the legitimate government

• January 31, 1953 - The Princess Victoria, a British Railways car ferry steamer, sinks in the Irish Sea