April

Samuel Molyneux, former MP for the University of Dublin collapses in the British House of Commons and dies

April 13, 1728

Samuel Molyneux FRS (16 July 1689 – 13 April 1728) was an amateur astronomer and politician who sat in the British House of Commons between 1715 and 1728 and in the Irish House of Commons from 1727 to …

Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies

April 13, 1722

Charles Leslie (27 July 1650 – 13 April 1722) was a former Church of Ireland priest who became a leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution.

Birth of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford-Viceroy of Ireland

April 13, 1593

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, KG (13 April 1593 (N.

Arthur I of Brittany assassinated by his uncle, John of England

April 13, 1203

Arthur I ( French: Arthur 1er de Bretagne) (29 March 1187 – presumably 1203) was 4th Earl of Richmond and Duke of Brittany between 1196 and 1203.

Led by Rory O'Connor, forces against the Anglo-Irish Treaty seize the Four Courts in Dublin

April 14, 1922

Limerick Soviet commences general strike in protest against English militarism in Ireland

April 14, 1919

Birth of actress Valerie Hobson in Larne, Co. Antrim

April 14, 1917

The Titanic, the worlds largest ship built at Belfasts Harland and Wolfe, hits an iceberg

April 14, 1912

An Oige, Irish Youth Hostel Association is established

April 14, 1905

Aberdeen Football Club was founded.

April 14, 1903

Jack Beattie, socialist politician and trade unionist, is born in Belfast

April 14, 1886

The Tricolor national flag of Ireland is presented for the first time by Thomas Francis Meagher & the Young Ireland Party

April 14, 1848