September

• September 1, 1643 - Battle of Tippermuir, Highland army under Montrose defeats larger army of convenanters (despite their battle cry of- Jesus and No Quarter)

• September 1, 1644 - Battle of Tippermuir, in which Marquis of Montrose defeated Covenanters .

• September 1, 1719 - Marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stewart (the Old Pretender) and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska. The Polish Princess had been kidnapped on her way to the original wedding, escaped and had married James by proxy earlier in, 1719.

• September 1, 1729 - Death of dramatist, essayist and publisher Sir Richard Steele, the Dubliner who founded The Tatler and The Spectator

• September 1, 1737 - Launch of the Belfast Newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world

• September 1, 1789 - Marguerite Gardiner, nee Power; Countess of Blessington; author, is born near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

• September 1, 1814 - Birth of James OFlanagan, author, in Fermoy, Co. Cork

• September 1, 1830 - Dublin Zoo opens

• September 1, 1830 - The Wild Colonial Boy is shot dead in a gun battle with police at Cambelltown, Sydney. Contrary to the popular song, The Wild Colonial Boy was John Donohue, transported from Ireland in 1824

• September 1, 1856 - Birth of Irish Nationalist Party leader John Redmond in Ballytrent, Co. Wexford

• September 1, 1864 - Roger Casement, British consular official and Irish nationalist, is born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin

• September 1, 1870 - Isaac Butt founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule is now the objective of constitutional nationalists

• September 1, 1971 - Sole remaining gas street lamp in Glasgow was lit for the last time, bringing to an end the age of the leeries, the lamplighters which started in, 1718 with oil lamps.

• September 1, 714 - Death of St Giles, patron saint of Edinburgh (and Elgin).

• September 2, 1022 - Maelsechlainn II The Great, High King of Ireland, died.

• September 2, 1022 - Maelsechlainn II - The great high king of Ireland - dies

• September 2, 1649 - Siege of Drogheda begins

• September 2, 1731 - Birth of Sir Lucius OBrien, opposition politician, once described as a man who disagrees with the rest of mankind by thinking well of himself

• September 2, 1752 - The Gregorian calendar is adopted in Ireland and Britain, 170 years after mainland Europe - 2 September is followed by 14 September

• September 2, 1784 - Sir Eyre Coote, the elder, dies of apoplexy at sea off Madras, while being pursued by French ships

• September 2, 1834 - Death of engineer, road, bridge and canal builder Thomas Telford. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

• September 2, 1893 - Second Home Rule Bill passed by House of Commons

• September 2, 1933 - Cummann na nGaedheal, the Centre Party, and the National Guard, once known as the Blueshirts, join forces to form Fine Gael

• September 3, 1571 - Earl of Lennox, Regent of Scotland, murdered. Earl of Mar appointed Regent but he died in October 1572.

• September 3, 1650 - Cromwell defeated Scots at Battle of Dunbar.

• September 3, 1654 - The first Protectorate parliament meets; Ireland is represented by 30 members

• September 3, 1745 - Prince Charles Edward Stuart proclaimed his father as King James VIII of Scotland at Perth.

• September 3, 1752 - With the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, September 3, 1752 became, 14 September. Crowds flocked the streets demanding Give us back our, 11 days.

• September 3, 1781 - Birth of William Sharman Crawford, radical politician, in Co. Down

• September 3, 1787 - Glasgow weavers riot after their wages are cut. Bricks were thrown at magistrates and soldiers then opened fire on the rioters, resulting in six being killed.

• September 3, 1821 - The last day of George IVs visit to Ireland

• September 3, 1842 - In Kill, Co. Kildare, birth of John Devoy, journalist and leading member of the Fenians

• September 3, 1850 - Charters are granted to colleges in Belfast (now Queen’s University), Cork (now UCC) and Galway (now UCG), under the Universities (Ireland) Act

• September 3, 1854 - Birth of Fanny Parnell, Land League agitator and sister of Charles Stewart Parnell

• September 3, 1877 - Y.V. Perrot, Breton patriot, writer and martyr, born.

• September 3, 1901 - James Hanley, novelist and short story writer, is born in Liverpool of Irish parents

• September 3, 1905 - Birth of James “Snowy” Dunne, widely regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest centre forwards. He played for Arsenal, Southampton and the Shamrock Rovers

• September 4, 1241 - King Alexander III born at Roxburgh.

• September 29, 1364 - Charles of Blois dies in the Battle of Auray. This checked French ambitions on Brittany.

• September 4, 1607 - Hugh ONeill, Ruari ODonnell and other chiefs of their families depart Lough Swilly for the continent in what has become known as the Flight of the Earls

• September 4, 1768 - Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, Breton linguist, born

• September 4, 1798 - Cornwallis moves forward from Tuam to attack Castlebar Humbert leaves Castlebar with 800 French troops and 1000 Irish rebels and moves into Co Sligo. His plan is to march to Ulster. Humbert marches all might. Rising takes place in Longford and Westmeath

• September 4, 1844 - Conspiracy judgment against Daniel OConnell is reversed by House of Lords

• September 4, 1851 - John Dillon, Nationalist politician, is born in Blackrock, Co. Dublin

• September 24, 1880 - Beginning of famous boycott against Irish landlord Captain Boycott.

• September 4, 1922 - Dónal Foley, journalist, humorist and author of Man Bites Dog column in the Irish Times, is born in Ring, Co. Waterford

• September 4, 1962 - Last tramcar run in Glasgow (to Auchenshuggle).

• September 4, 1964 - Forth Road Bridge opened by the Queen. At, 6,156 feet long and a centre span of, 3300 feet, it was the longest in Europe at that time.

• September 5, 1690 - Having failed to take Limerick, William leaves Ireland

• September 5, 1724 - In the guise of an Irish Patriot , M. B. Drapier, Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier Letter III - one of a series of letters designed to incite the people against a new coinage

• September 5, 1750 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet, born.

• September 5, 1771 - Benjamin Franklins visit to Ireland begins

• September 5, 1785 - Edmond Sexton Pery resigns as Speaker of the Irish parliament on grounds of ill health. John Foster is unanimously elected to replace him

• September 5, 1798 - Humbert defeats small government force at Collooney, but suffers serious casualties; he camps at Dromahair. Longford rebels attack Granard and are routed. Westmeath rebels occupy Wilsons Hospital

• September 5, 1890 - Birth of Richard Chenevix Trench, prelate, philologist and poet; the New English Dictionary, later the Oxford English Dictionary, was begun at his suggestion, in Dublin

• September 6, 1715 - First Jacobite rising begins as the standard of James III is raised at the Braes or MARCH - Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

• September 6, 1715 - The Earl of Mar unfurled the standard of the Old Pretender in Braemar at the start of the first Jacobite Uprising.

• September 6, 1798 - Humbert marches to Drumkeeran. Lake is still tailing Humbert

• September 6, 1813 - Isaac Butt, barrister, politician and founder of the Home Rule movement, is born in Glenfin, Co. Donegal

• September 6, 1831 - Birth in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork of Jeremiah ODonovan Rossa, one of the founders of the Fenian Brotherhood

• September 6, 1890 - Birth of Brinsley MacNamara, novelist, short story-writer and playwright

• September 6, 1936 - Birth of Bruce Arnold, journalist and author

• September 7, 1497 - Perkin Warbeck, pretender to English Throne, lands at Sennen, Cornwall and raises a Cornish Army.

• September 7, 1695 - Penal Laws are passed which restrict the rights of Catholics to have an education, to bear arms, or to possess a horse worth more than five pounds

• September 7, 1736 - A mob broke into the Tolbooth jail and removed Captain Porteous, reprieved for the killing of Edinburgh citizens during a riot on April, 14. He was then hanged from a dyers pole.

• September 7, 1798 - Humbert crosses Shannon at Ballintra and camps at Cloone. Cornwallis crosses Shannon. Rebels at Wilsons Hospital are routed; this ends the rebellion in the midlands

• September 7, 1801 - Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquis of Downshire, former MP for Co. Down and one of the wealthiest landowners in Ireland, commits suicide

• September 7, 1823 - Kevin Izod ODoherty, transportee, physician and politician, is born in Dublin

• September 7, 1842 - Queen Victorias first visit to Edinburgh.

• September 7, 1892 - John L. Sullivan loses his world heavyweight boxing title to another Irish American, James Corbett

• September 7, 1921 - Frank Duff founds the Association of Our Lady of Mercy, later to be known as the Legion of Mary

• September 8, 1783 - A second convention of Dungannon - a gathering of Volunteers from Ulster- is held and prepares the way for a National Volunteer convention on parliamentary reform

• September 8, 1798 - Battle of Ballinamuck, Ireland , last battle of The Year of the French.

• September 8, 1798 - Battle of Ballinamuck - last major battle of The Year of the French; after a short fight, Humbert surrenders

• September 8, 1812 - John Martin, revolutionary, transportee and politician, is born near Newry, Co. Down

• September 8, 1830 - Thomas Nicholas Burke, Dominican friar, preacher and lecturer, is born in Galway

• September 8, 1852 - A conference of the Tenant League in Dublin adopts a policy of independent opposition in Parliament

• September 8, 1908 - Poet, educator and eventual Easter Rising rebel Patrick Pearse opens St. Ednas school for boys (Scoil Eanna), combining new European theories of education with a focus on the glory of the Gaelic past

• September 8, 1931 - Birth of Desmond Guinness, author and conservationist

• September 8, 1933 - Founding of Fine Gael Party

• September 9, 1513 - James IV of Scotland killed in the Battle of Flodden.

• September 9, 1543 - Mary Queen of Scots crowned at Stirling Castle.

• September 9, 1758 - Birth of painter Alexander Naysmyth in Edinburgh.

• September 9, 1831 - 30,000 punds is allocated to establish national system of elementary education in Ireland

• September 9, 1845 - The arrival of the potato blight in Ireland is reported in the Dublin Evening Post

• September 9, 1852 - The last day of the Tenant League Conference in Dublin

• September 9, 1893 - House of Lords rejects Second Home Rule Bill

• September 9, 1922 - The newly elected Daíl Éireann meets to frame its constitution and elects William T. Cosgrave President of the Executive Committee

• September 9, 1963 - Jim Clark became the (then) worlds youngest F1 motor racing champion.

• September 9, 1978 - Poet and Nationalist C M Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) died.

• September 9, 872 - Earliest verifiable date of a Viking invasion of Ireland in Dunrally

• September 10, 1297 - William Wallace seizes high ground above Stirling Bridge and bars route of invading English in battle the following day.

• September 10, 1315 - Battle of Connor. Major victory for Edward Bruce in his invasion of Ulster

• September 10, 1547 - English defeated Scots at Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, near Edinburgh. The battle was sparked by English demands that Edward VI of England (aged, 10) should marry Mary Queen of Scots (aged, 5) an event known as the Rough Wooing. It is estimated that, 15,000

• September 10, 1602 - Red Hugh ODonnell dies in Simancas, Spain; evidence suggests he was poisoned by an English spy

• September 10, 1641 - Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda

• September 10, 1763 - The Freemans Journal is founded in Dublin by Charles Lucas

• September 10, 1771 - Birth of Mungo Park at Foulshiels, near Selkirk. He became an explorer and doctor who charted the course of the River Niger.

• September 10, 1831 - Jeremiah ODonovan Rossa, Fenian, is born in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork

• September 10, 1850 - In Thurles, it is the final day of the first canonical synod of the Irish church, summoned by Paul Cullen

• September 10, 1897 - HRH Duke of York opened the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

• September 10, 1916 - While serving in the Dublin Fusiliers during World War I, Irish poet Tom Kettle dies in attack on Ginchy

• September 10, 1919 - Dail Eirean outlawed by the English as a dangerous association.

• September 10, 1923 - The Irish Free State is admitted into the League of Nations

• September 11, 1297 - Victory of Wallace at Stirling bridge, Scotland

• September 11, 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge, Wallace (as famously portrayed by Mel Gibson in Braveheart) defeats Edward I.

• September 11, 1649 - Massacre at Drogheda. Cromwell captures the town and slaughters the garrison

• September 11, 1700 - James Thomson, Scots author of Rule Britannia, born.

• September 11, 1766 - John Bligh, former MP for Athboy, who suffers from the delusion that he is a teapot, marries suddenly and unexpectedly at nearly 50 years of age. Between now and his death in 1781 he will father at least seven children, in spite of his initial alarm that

• September 11, 1919 - Dail Eireann is suppressed as a dangerous association by the British government and membership is deemed to be a crime

• September 11, 1922 - Proportional representation for local elections is abolished in Northern Ireland

• September 11, 1945 - The Citizens Theatre on Glasgow moved from its original location in Buchanan Street to the heart of the Gorbals, one of the most run-down parts of the city.

• September 11, 1997 - Referendum on Devolution which approved the creation of a new Scottish Parliament by a substantial majority.

• September 12, 1315 - Thomas Dun, a privateer from Scotland, sailed into Holyhead, captured an English ship and over-ran Anglesay.

• September 12, 1653 - Ireland and Scotland are represented by six and five members respectively in the Barebones parliament which is in effect from 4 July to this date

• September 12, 1715 - Battle of Sheriffmuir, Scotland

• September 12, 1715 - Jacobites defeated government forces at Battle of Sheriffmuir.

• September 12, 1798 - Rebels attack Castlebar and are repulsed

• September 12, 1848 - Death of William McNab, curator of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. He was responsible for greening Scotland in the, 19th century. He moved, 4,000 plant species, including trees from a site on Leith Walk, to the present garden at Inverleith.

• September 12, 1907 - Louis McNeice, poet and classical scholar is born in Belfast

• September 12, 1919 - Dáil Éireann is declared illegal

• September 13, 1494 - Edward Poynings, best known for his introduction of Poynings Law, which prevented the Irish Parliament from meeting without royal permission and approval of its agenda, is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland

• September 13, 1644 - Battle of Aberdeen, in which the Marquis of Montrose captured the city.

• September 13, 1645 - Royalist troops under Marquis of Montrose defeated by Covenanters led by David Leslie at Battle of Philiphaugh.

• September 13, 1803 - Death of John Barry, a native of Ballystampson, Co. Wexford, Commodore in the US Navy and renowned as the Father of the American Navy

• September 13, 1903 - Padraic Pearse arrives in Ros Muc, County Galway and takes up residence at his cottage in Inbhear

• September 13, 1912 - In a speech at Dundee, Winston Churchill announces his support of a policy of devolution for Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

• September 13, 1912 - In a speech at Dundee, Winston Churchill announces his support of a policy of devolution for Ireland, Scotland and Wales

• September 13, 1913 - Sir Robert Lorimer, architect and exponent of the Scottish Vernacular Revival, died.

• September 13, 1938 - John Smith, politician and leader of the Labour Party, born at Dalmally, Argyll.

• September 14, 1402 - Scots led by, 4th Earl of Douglas defeated at the Battle of Homildon Hill by English army led by Percy Hotspur.

• September 14, 1507 - Edinburgh merchants granted exclusive privilege of running a printing press.

• September 14, 1580 - Birth of Robert Gordon of Straloch, Aberdeen, cartographer and rescuer of Thomas Ports original maps.

• September 14, 1607 - Flight of the Earls from Ireland to the Continent.

• September 14, 1647 - Lord Inchiquin, a royalist turned Parliamentarian, sacks the Irish Catholic Confederate garrison at the Rock of Cashel

• September 14, 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Edward Stuart, occupied Edinburgh.

• September 14, 1752 - The Gregorian calendar is adopted in Ireland and Britain, 170 years after mainland Europe - 2 September is followed by 14 September. There are protests and riots by people who are convinced that they have lost 12 days out of their lives

• September 14, 1824 - Sir Frederick Falkiner, impoverished former MP for Athy, Co. Dublin and Co. Carlow commits suicide in Naples

• September 14, 1852 - Death of Arthur Wellesley, alias the Duke of Wellington. The Dublin born soldier served as MP for Meath before eventually becoming Prime Minister of Britain

• September 14, 1886 - Birth of author Alice Milligan

• September 14, 1907 - Edel Quinn, promoter of Legion of Mary in Africa, is born near Kanturk, Co. Cork

• September 15, 1595 - City Baillie shot when Edinburgh High School pupils rioted when refused a holiday.

• September 15, 1718 - The Breton gentry gather in Rennes to defend the liberties of Brittany.

• September 15, 1773 - The Hector leaves Loch Broom, near Ullapool, to sail to Pictou, Nova Scotia, carrying emigrants escaping from the Clearances.

• September 15, 1851 - Sir William Whitla, physician and professor, is born in Co. Monaghan

• September 15, 1865 - Police raid and close the Irish People offices; Rossa, Luby and OLeary are arrested

• September 15, 1866 - John Blake Dillon, Young Irelander and co-founder of The Nation, dies in Killarney

• September 15, 1881 - First soccer international in Ireland; England beats the Irish squad

• September 15, 1889 - Birth in Castlebar of singer Margaret Burke Sheridan

• September 15, 1905 - Pat OCallaghan, physician, hammer-thrower and first man to win an Olympic gold medal while representing Ireland, is born near Kanturk, Co. Cork

• September 15, 1931 - 12,000 Royal Navy sailors on, 15 ships went on strike at Invergordon over cuts in their pay.

• September 15, 2005 - St Mirren Day (patron saint of Paisley).

• September 16, 1400 - Owain Glyn Dwr raises standard of revolt against England- declaring Welsh independence.

• September 16, 1732 - Birth in Castletown, Co. Clare of Thomas OGorman, physician, wine trader and courtier in France; made a chevalier by Louis XV

• September 16, 1798 - Small French force under James Napper Tandy makes brief landing on Rutland Island, Co. Donegal

• September 16, 1798 - Belfast United Irish leaders arrested

• September 16, 1808 - William Trench, land agent and author, is born near Portarlington, Co. Laois

• September 16, 1830 - Birth in Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow of Patrick Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, first Australian cardinal, and church historian

• September 16, 1845 - Death of Thomas Davis, revolutionary, poet, and political theorist

• September 16, 1859 - David Livingstone discovered Lake Nyasa.

• September 16, 1865 - Fenian newspaper, Irish People, ceases publication

• September 16, 1870 - Birth in Dublin of John Pius Boland, nationalist politician and Irelands first Olympic gold medalist

• September 16, 1906 - Trevor G. McVeagh, cricket, hockey, squash and tennis player, is born in Athboy, Co. Meath

• September 16, 1925 - Charles Haughey, Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach, is born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo

• September 17, 1711 - John Holwell, surgeon and survivor of Black Hole of Calcutta is born in Dublin

• September 17, 1745 - Prince Charles Edward Stuart took up residence at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh.

• September 17, 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charles enters Edinburgh while a bagpiper plays - The King Shall Enjoy His Own Again

• September 17, 1798 - 3000 French troops depart for Ireland from Brest

• September 17, 1854 - David Dunbar Buick was born at, 26 Green Street, Arbroath. He emigrated to the USA with his parents at the age of two. Although he founded the Buick Manufacturing Company which later became General Motors, it was William C. Durant who grew the company.

• September 17, 1893 - David Hughes Parry, born

• September 17, 1903 - Frank OConnor, (pseudonym of Michael ODonovan), short-story writer and author of poetic translations from Irish is born in Cork

• September 17, 1920 - Birth of Chaim Herzog, former president of Israel, born in Belfast and educated in Dublin

• September 17, 1930 - The Free State is elected to the council of the League of Nations

• September 17, 1937 - Ten young men, potato-pickers from Achill Island, die when a bothy catches fire on a farm at Kirkintilloch, Scotland

• September 18, 1400 - First action of Glyn Dwrs revolt as Welsh rebels capture town of Ruthin.

• September 18, 1818 - Theatre Royal, Glasgow, became the first theatre in Britain to be lit by gas.

• September 18, 1846 - James Standish OGrady, novelist, is born in Castletownbere, Co. Cork

• September 18, 1851 - Anne Devlin, friend and comrade of Robert Emmett, dies in Dublin

• September 18, 1867 - Kelly and Timothy Deasy are rescued in a Fenian attack on a police van in Manchester during which a police sergeant is shot dead

• September 18, 1889 - Kathleen Behan, née Kearney, Mother of All the Behans and folk singer is born in Dublin

• September 18, 1914 - Home Rule Act on Statute Book but is suspended for the duration of World War

• September 18, 1941 - Stephen Hayes, a former IRA chief of staff, is kidnapped on 30 June; he later claims to have been court martialled and tortured by the IRA; Seán McCaughey is convicted of his kidnapping on this date

• September 18, 1944 - Birth of Lord Roger of Earlsferry, Lord Justice General.

• September 18, 1959 - 47 miners were killed at Auchengeich Colliery, Lanarkshire when the bogies carrying them to work ran into smoke, 1,000 feet below ground.

• September 18, 1964 - Death of Sean O’Casey in England.

• September 19, 1757 - Having been funded by a bequest from Jonathan Swift, St Patricks Hospital for the insane, Dublin, is opened

• September 19, 1854 - The Great North of Scotland Railway opened, running from Aberdeen to Huntly.

• September 19, 1880 - Parnell delivers his famous speech at Ennis in which he introduces the term for non-violent protest - boycotting. Parnell asked his audience, What are you to do with a tenant who bids for a farm from which another has been evicted? Several voices replie

• September 19, 1881 - Kate Coll and Juan Vivion de Valera are married in St. Patricks Church, Greenville, New Jersey. Just over a year later the couple give birth to Eamon

• September 19, 1885 - David Christopher Davies, leading Welsh geologist died.

• September 19, 1889 - Sean Keating, painter, is born in Limerick

• September 19, 1905 - Death of Dr. Thomas Barnardo. Dublin-born Barnardo opened his first home for destitute boys in Stepney in 1870

• September 20, 1689 - The Enniskillen Protestants defeat Jacobite forces at Boyle, Co. Roscommon

• September 20, 1746 - Prince Charles Edward Stuart escaped capture by sailing to France aborad the French ship LHeureux.

• September 20, 1784 - Sir Richard Griffith, geologist and civil engineer, is born in Dublin

• September 20, 1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish patriot executed by England.

• September 20, 1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish patriot, is executed in Dublin. Emmet becomes a hero of Irish nationalists, largely on the basis of his stirring speech from the dock - Let no man write my epitaph ...When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then,

• September 20, 1842 - Sir James Dewar, inventor of the vacuum flask, born in Kincardine-on-Forth.

• September 20, 1847 - Birth in Carron, Co. Clare of Michael Cusack, GAA founder

• September 20, 1911 - Anna Catherine Parnell, Irish patriot, dies

• September 20, 1918 - Republican newspapers are banned by English

• September 20, 1920 - Black and Tans raid Balbriggan, Co. Dublin

• September 20, 1920 - Kevin Barry is captured

• September 20, 1958 - Construction began on the Forth Road Bridge

• September 20, 1967 - Liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at John Browns shipyard at Clydebank.

• September 20, 1972 - Paul McCartney, one of the Beatles, was arrested for possession of marijuana at his farm in the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland.

• September 20 - ALBAN ELFED (Welsh Bardic name for autumn equinox)

• September 21, 1170 - MacMurrough and the Normans march on the Norse kingdom of Dublin, avoiding an Irish force that awaits them to the south of it. Dublin falls to them on this date. Some Norsemen, including the king of Dublin, Askulv, flee to the Hebrides or the Isle of Man

• September 21, 1327 - King Edward II of England died , succeeded by Edward III.

• September 21, 1513 - King James V crowned at Stirling Castle.

• September 21, 1601 - A Spanish army under Don Juan del Aguila lands at Kinsale

• September 21, 1703 - The first Irish parliament of Queen Anne is called; Alan Brodrick is unanimously elected Speaker

• September 21, 1722 - Minister, historian, playwright and tutor to the Prince of Wales, John Home born. After the first performance of his play Douglas, people asked Whaurs yer Wully Shakespeare noo?

• September 21, 1728 - Philip Embury, founder of the American Methodist Church, is born in Ballingrane, Co. Limerick

• September 21, 1745 - The Jacobites are victorious at Prestonpans

• September 21, 1745 - Charles Edward Stuart victorious at Battle of Prestonpans. The Jacobite army of just over, 3,000 under Bonnie Prince Charlie heavily defeated the English Royal forces led by Sir John Cope.

• September 21, 1756 - Road builder John McAdam born in Ayr.

• September 21, 1795 - Battle of the Diamond between (Protestant) Peep o Day Boys and (Catholic) Defenders near Loughgall, Co. Armagh leaves 30 Defenders dead and leads to the foundation of the Loyal Orange Institution (later the Orange Order) ...to defend the King and his

• September 21, 1827 - Michael Corcoran, Union General, is born in Co. Donegal

• September 21, 1832 - Novelist (notably Ivanhoe and Talisman) and poet Sir Walter Scott died aged, 61.

• September 21, 1881 - Revolutionary Éamonn Ceannt, is born in Glenamaddy, County Galway

• September 21, 1909 - Artist Tom Carr is born is Belfast

• September 21, 1932 - Birth of Mariga Guinness, née Princess Hermione Marie Gabrielle von Urach, Countess Württemberg; co-founder of Irish Georgian Society

• September 22, 1485 - Duke Fransez II sets up a Breton national assembly.

• September 22, 1601 - Battle of Kinsale

• September 22, 1626 - Charles I offers twenty-six concessions (graces) to the Irish in return for subsidies to expand his army

• September 22, 1798 - Colonel Trench marches from Castlebar and takes Ballina

• September 22, 1821 - Patrick Moore, Confederate General, is born in Galway

• September 22, 1864 - Col. James Mulligan, who commanded Mulligans Irish Brigade, dies of wounds sustained at the 3rd Battle of Winchester

• September 22, 1884 - The gunboat HMS Wasp is wrecked off Tory Island, Co. Donegal, with the loss of 52 lives; there are eight survivors

• September 22, 1920 - Mid-Clare Brigade, IRA, kill six policemen near Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare

• September 22, 1928 - The first professional artist ever to appear on British television, Irishwoman Miss Peg O’Neil, gives a charming entertainment, chatting and smiling, and telling Irish stories. The broadcast takes place at Olympia on the first day of the Radio Exhibitio

• September 22, 1931 - Birth of politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, Minister for Defence, Viscount Younger of Leckie (George Younger). Later became Chairman of The Royal Bank of Scotland plc.

• September 23, 1586 - At the battle of Ardnaree in Co. Mayo, Sir Richard Bingham, governor of Connacht, surprises a force of redshanks (Scottish mercenary light infantrymen) engaged by the Burkes of Mayo; 1,000 redshanks and 1,000 camp followers are killed. Bingham hangs the l

• September 23, 1641 - The Gaelic Catholics of Ulster stage an uprising against the Scottish Presbyterian planters

• September 23, 1678 - The Earl of Mar was commissioned to raise a regiment nicknamed Earl of Mars Gray Breeks which later became the Royal Scots Fusiliers.

• September 23, 1779 - Battle of Flamborough Head in which Scots-born John Paul Jones fought an engagement against the British navy. His ship, the USS Bonhomme Richard sank but he boarded and captured HMS Serapis.

• September 23, 1798 - British Gen. Trench attacks the French and Irish left behind by Humbert to hold Killela. About 300 Irish rebels are killed, some while trying to surrender.

• September 23, 1798 - Second Battle of Killala. Final surrender of combined French and Irish forces to the English

• September 23, 2002 - The Listowel Races in Co. Kerry begin. For the first year in its history, which dates to 1858, it will be a seven-day meeting.

• September 23, 704 - Death of St Adamnan, biographer of St Columba.

• September 24, 1332 - Edward Balliol, son of John Balliol, crowned at Scone. He was deposed by supporters of David II in December 1332, restored in, 1333, deposed again in, 1334, restored in, 1335 and finally deposed in, 1341.

• September 24, 1661 - Faithful Tadpole is admitted as a clerical vicar choral of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

• September 24, 1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness is born in Celbridge, Co. Kildare

• September 24, 1786 - Birth of Charles Bianconi, Irish passenger-car entrepreneur

• September 24, 1798 - United Irishman, Bartholomew Teeling, is hanged in Dublin

• September 24, 1801 - James Moore ODonell, former MP for Ratoath, is killed in a duel with Major Denis Bingham in a feud over Co. Mayo politics

• September 24, 1880 - Mayo agent, Captain Charles Boycott, was sent to a moral Coventry. He described his plight in a letter to The Times ...people collect in crowds upon my farm and order off all my workmen. The shopkeepers have been warned to stop all supplies to my hous

• September 24, 1962 - Birth of Scotland international footballer and later TV personality Ally McCoist.

• September 25, 1267 - England Recognizes Llywelyn and his heirs as Kings of Wales and recognized the borders of their territory.

• September 25, 1819 - George Salmon, mathematician and professor of divinity, is born in Cork

• September 25, 1875 - John Hughes Bennett, pioneer microscopist, died.

• September 25, 1880 - Viscount Mountmorres is killed near Clonbur, Co. Galway

• September 25, 1917 - Thomas Ashe dies in the Mater Hospital in Dublin from the combined effects of a hunger strike and forced feeding at Mountjoy Jail. The following famous and much repeated Sean O’Casey quote You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea... you cannot co

• September 25, 1961 - Ronnie Whelan, Home Farm, Liverpool, Reading and Republic of Ireland footballer, is born in Dublin

• September 26, 1289 - All men of good will to the king, both Irish and English, in Munster and Leinster are summoned to Buttevant in Leix (Queens County). A ten day expedition which begins on this date, subdues and forces the local Irish into an uneasy peace

• September 26, 1290 - Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway (Eiriksdotter) died, en route from Norway to Scotland.

• September 26, 1678 - Thomas Tonkin - Cornish historian born

• September 26, 1713 - Charles Lucas, physician, MP and political radical, is born in Ballingaddy, Ennis, Co. Clare

• September 26, 1791 - First convicts from Ireland arrive in New South Wales, Australia

• September 26, 1860 - First Open Golf Championship held at Prestwick. There were eight entrants and the championship was won by Willie Park of Musselburgh.

• September 26, 1902 - James Dillon, politician and Fine Gael leader is born in Dublin

• September 26, 1930 - Saor Éire, a republican-socialist party, is founded by Peadar ODonnell, Seán MacBride and other IRA members; it, the IRA and ten other organizations are declared illegal in the Free State on 23 October, and the Catholic Church excommunicates members of a

• September 26, 1932 - De Valera opens the 13th Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva

• September 26, 1934 - Liner Queen Mary launched at John Browns shipyard, Clydebank. She went on to break the Atlantic record (the Blue Riband) four times.

• September 27, 1662 - An act for encouraging Protestant strangers and others to inhabit and plant in the kingdom of Ireland is passed in the Irish Parliament under Charles II

• September 27, 1725 - Patrick Darcy, scientist and soldier, is born in Kitulla, Co.Galway

• September 27, 1831 - Scotlands first passenger railway opened (between Glasgow and Garnkirk).

• September 27, 1891 - Last public speech of Parnell-Irish statesman at Creggs Co. Galway Ireland

• September 27, 1926 - Tim OKeeffe, publisher, is born in Kinsale, Co. Cork

• September 27, 1938 - The, 80,000-ton liner Queen Elizabeth, then the largest passenger ship ever built, launched at John Browns shipyard, Clydebank.

• September 27, 1948 - Singer Barbara Dickson, born.

• September 28, 1396 - Battle of the Clans between clans Chattan and Kay on the North Inch, Perth, in front of King Robert III.

• September 28, 1581 - George Buchan, humanist, poet, historian and tutor of King James VI, died.

• September 28, 1678 - Popish plot is alleged in England

• September 28, 1690 - Marlborough takes Cork for the Williamites

• September 28, 1703 - Francis Annesley is expelled from the Irish Commons for his part in The Report of the Commissioners appointed by Parliament into the Irish Forfeitures, printed in London, containing the paragraph - And indeed it does appear to us, that the Freeholders of

• September 28, 1741 - Deacon William Brodie, a well known thief in 18th Century Edinburgh, was born.

• September 28, 1912 - Edward Carson, leader of Ulster Unionists, stages signing of Southern League and Covenant against Irish Home Rule

• September 28, 1920 - Cork No. 2 Brigade, IRA, attacks and captures a military barracks in Mallow, Co. Cork. English forces later burn and sack the town

• September 28, 1932 - TV mogul Jeremy Isaacs born.

• September 29, 1155 - A proposal for the invasion of Ireland by Henry II is discussed at the Council of Winchester and rejected, though soon after, Henry obtains a papal privilege approving the invasion

• September 29, 1603 - Rory ODonnell kisses the kings hand and is created Earl of Tyrconnell

• September 29, 1621 - Charter granted to Sir William Alexander of Menstrie to colonize the Baronetcy of Nova Scotia.

• September 29, 1678 - Count Peter Lacy, soldier, governor of Livonia (Latvia) and field-marshal in the Russian army, is born in Killeedy, Co. Limerick

• September 29, 1732 - Birth of Sir Henry Cavendish, politician and master of shorthand, who recorded parliamentary debates

• September 29, 1778 - Birth in Dublin of Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy

• September 29, 1798 - Tandy and other Irish political prisoners in Hamburg are handed over to British authorities

• September 29, 1826 - Charles Cornwallis Chesney, professor of military history, is born in Kilkeel, Co. Down

• September 29, 1836 - Michael Mulhall, publisher and statistician, is born in Dublin

• September 29, 1854 - Birth in Kinvara, Co. Galway of Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the song, Galway Bay

• September 29, 1898 - Fenian Thomas Clarke is released from Portland Prison

• September 29, 1905 - Francis Llewellyn Harrison, musicologist, is born in Dublin

• September 29, 1908 - Birth of film star Greer Garson in Co. Down

• September 29, 1929 - The last active Fenian, John Devoy, dies

• September 29, 1930 - George Bernard Shaw refuses a peerage

• September 29, 1952 - John Cobb made an attempt at the world water-speed record on Loch Ness which ended in tragedy as the boat crashed and Cobb was killed.

• September 29, 1996 - Stone of Destiny on which generations of Scottish kings had been crowned, returned to Scotland, 700 years after it had been removed by King Edward I of England.

• September 30, 1294 - Revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn, Caernarfon Castle taken by Welsh rebels.

• September 30, 1430 - A great council meets at Dublin on on this date; it states that Irish enemies and English rebels have conquered almost all of Limerick, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Wexford, Carlow, Kildare, Meath and Louth, so that hardly anything but Co. Dublin remains in the c

• September 30, 1598 - The English poet Edmund Spenser is appointed Sheriff of Cork

• September 30, 1691 - The first recorded meeting of the Presbyterian general synod of Ulster is held at Antrim

• September 30, 1813 - Birth in Orkney of John Rae, explorer and surveyor of Canadas northern coastline.

• September 30, 1852 - Sir Charles Stanford, composer, is born in Dublin

• September 30, 1900 - Arthur Griffith forms Cumann na nGaedheal, which later becomes Sinn Féin

• September 30, 1928 - Announcement of the discovery of penicillin by Ayrshire-born Sir Alexander Fleming.