April

Campobello New Brunswick Irish-American Fenians attack Campobello Island from Eastport, Maine; they are persuaded to leave by British warships and US agents

April 10, 1866

Oliver Sheppard, sculptor, is born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone

April 10, 1865

Fr. Theobald Mathew, with the support of William Martin, a quaker, founds the total abstinence movement in Cork

April 10, 1838

Birth of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist, in Monaghan

April 10, 1816

Birth of William Brownlow, parliamentarian and Volunteer

April 10, 1726

A charter of Charles II replaces Cromwells charter of Londonderry

April 10, 1662

Cromwells New Model Army is victorious at Macroom, Co. Cork

April 10, 1650

King James V was born at Linlithgow Palace, son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor

April 10, 1512

King James V was born at Linlithgow Palace on 10 April 1512, son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor (daughter of King Henry VII of England).

Following the death of Ralph de Ufford, Roger Darcy is appointed justiciar

April 10, 1346

Battle of the Braes in which crofters in Skye fought 50 policemen during a dispute over land rights

April 11, 1882

Kathleen Daly Clarke, Irish patriot, is born

April 11, 1878

John Galt, author, traveller, founder of Guelph, Ontario, died.

April 11, 1839