Today on Celtic History on

November 22nd

Total Events: 9

Thu 22 Nov 2001

Jack McConnell elected First Minister of Scotland, succeeding Henry McLeish who had resigned

Sun 22 Nov 1942

Actor Tom Conti born

Sat 22 Nov 1919

Birth of Máire Drumm, Irish Republican, in Newry, Co. Armagh

Fri 22 Nov 1912

Donagh MacDonagh, son of Thomas MacDonagh, born in Dublin

Mon 22 Nov 1869

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian, contests and wins a Tipperary by-election in abstentia, but is declared ineligible as a convicted felon

Mon 22 Nov 1869

Clipper ship Cutty Sark was launched

Mon 22 Nov 1830

Justin McCarthy, politician, novelist and historian, is born in Cork

Mon 22 Nov 1773

Lord John Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, is born in Dublin

Wed 22 Nov 0845

Victory of Nomenoe over the Franks at Ballon, Brittany