April

Viscount Edmond Pery, speaker of the House of Commons, born

April 08, 1719

Edmund Sexton Pery, 1st Viscount Pery (8 April 1719 – 24 February 1806; middle name also spelt Sexten) was an Anglo-Irish politician who served as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons between 1771 …

The merchant ship Aud leaves Germany for Ireland with arms for the Irish Republican Brotherhood

April 09, 1916

Edward Hallaran Bennett, surgeon, is born in Cork

April 09, 1837

After resigning as Commissioner of the Treasury (UK) over the issue of Catholic relief, Maurice FitzGerald, MP for Co. Kerry states on this date that their war effort alone merits concessions to Irish Catholics

April 09, 1807

The Relief Act grants Catholics parliamentary franchise and certain civil and military rights

April 09, 1793

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was beheaded for High Treason

April 09, 1747

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat who in 1715 had origninally been a supporter of the House of Hanover, and then in 1745 changed sides and joined Prince Charles Edward, the young Jacobite pretender, a …

Death of Ralph de Ufford, justiciar

April 09, 1346

Second Treaty of Durham recogning an independent Scotland

April 09, 1139

Sandy Lyle becomes the first Scottish (and British) golfer to win the US Masters tournament.

April 10, 1988

British Parliament proposes conscription in Ireland

April 10, 1918

Yann Ber Kalloch, a great Breton poet dies in the First World War

April 10, 1917

George William Russell (pseudonym A. E. Russell); poet, painter, writer, economist and mystic, is born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh

April 10, 1867