April

Richard Levinge, an Irish MP, who had been committed by the English House of Commons to the Tower of London, is released

April 11, 1700

Scottish settlement in Darien, Panama, abandoned.

April 11, 1700

Catholic worship is re-established in Kilkenny and the main Munster towns

April 11, 1603

Llywelyn the Great died.

April 11, 1240

Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173–April 11, 1240) was a Prince of Gwynedd: and eventually ruler over much of Wales.

The Scottish National Party gained their first electoral victory

April 12, 1945

Madeleine Smith, found not proven for murder in 1857, died peacefully in New York.

April 12, 1928

Flyweight boxing champion Benny Lynch born.

April 12, 1913

Patrick McGilligan, pro-Treaty nationalist and politician, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry

April 12, 1889

The American Civil War begins; 150,000 Irishmen will serve with the Union forces, and 40,000 with the Confederacy

April 12, 1861

The American relief ship, Jamestown, lands supplies in Cork for famine victims

April 12, 1847

Patrick Ford, journalist in the USA, fund-raiser for Irish causes, born in Galway

April 12, 1837

An Act establishes free trade in manufactured articles between Britain and Ireland

April 12, 1824