February

Lord Randolph Churchill gives his destructive speech - Ulster will Fight and Ulster will be Right

February 22, 1886

The last invasion of England, Small French force commanded by Irishman William Tate lands in Wales

February 22, 1797

Thomas Eyre, MP for Fore, dies in the House of Commonsn suddenly taken with an apoplectic fit

February 22, 1772

King James II killed William Douglas at Stirling

February 22, 1452

King David II, son of King Robert the Bruce, died

February 22, 1371

David II was the son of King Robert the Bruce by his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh.

James Heriot, author of All Creatures Great and Small, died

February 23, 1995

John Robert Gregg, Irish Inventor of Gregg Shorthand, died

February 23, 1948

Thomas Murphy, a playwright, is born

February 23, 1935

Sinn Fein contests its first election, County Leitrim

February 23, 1908

Hugh Stevenson Robertson, Scottish composer of Songs of the Isles, born

February 23, 1874

Nicola Hamilton, widow of Tristram Beresford MP, dies on her 47th birthday

February 23, 1713

Giovanni Battista Rinuccini returns to Rome

February 23, 1649