Irish History on the Day that's in it

8 October 1899: The foundation stone of a monument to Charles Stewart Parnell was laid in Upper Sackville (O'Connell) Street, Dublin...

7 October 1921: Eamon de Valera, the President of Ireland issued secret instructions to the plenipotentiaries about to depart to London ...

6 October 1731: Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster was born on this day. She was the daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richm...

5 October 1968: A Civil Rights march attended by some 2,000 people and organised by local activists and the NICRA was attacked by the...

4 October 1957: Sputnik/ Спутник   over Ireland. The Soviet Union amazed the World when it launched the first man made object into orbi...

3 October 1981: The Irish Hunger Strike of 1981 ended on this day. The remaining prisoners on the strike in the H Blocks [above] of Lon...

2 October 1600: The Battle of the Moyry Pass / Cath Bealach na mhaighre on this day. The 'Gap of the North' was the traditional...