April

William Soutar, poet, born in Perth

April 28, 1898

Teresa Kearney, better known as Mother Kevin, missionary and founder of Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Africa, is born in Knockenrahan, Co. Wicklow

April 28, 1875

William Ellison, clergyman and the sixth director of the Armagh Observatory, is born

April 28, 1864

Rev. William Jackson, agent of French revolutionary government, is arrested in Dublin

April 28, 1794

Henry Dundas, powerful politician, known as Uncrowned King of Scotland, born.

April 28, 1742

Sir Wentworth Harman, MP for Lanesborough, coming in a dark night from Chapel-Izod, his coach overturning, tumbled down a precipice, and he dies

April 28, 1714

Rhys ap Gruffydd - King of South Wales, died.

April 28, 1197

Rhys ap Gruffydd: (1132–28 April 1197) was the ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth (South Wales) from 1155 until his death.

Pearse and Connolly agree to ceasefire after being forced out of the Dublin GPO by artillery fire

April 29, 1912

The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a rebellion staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916.

Conal O'Riordan, writer and theatre manager, is born in Dublin

April 29, 1874

Conal Holmes O’Connell O’Riordan, who also wrote under the pseudonym Norreys Connell, was an Irish dramatist and novelist born on April 29, 1874, and passed away on June 18, 1948.

Paul Cullen, prelate, is born in Prospect, Co. Kildare

April 29, 1803

Paul Cardinal Cullen (29 April 1803 – 24 October 1878) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and previously of Armagh, and the first Irish cardinal.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, soldier and statesman, is born in Dublin

April 29, 1769

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, soldier, and Tory politician who was one of the …

Wide Streets Commission for Dublin is appointed by the Irish Parliament

April 29, 1758

The Wide Streets Commission (officially the Commissioners for making Wide and Convenient Ways, Streets and Passages) was established by an Act of Parliament in 1758, at the request of Dublin …