February

Leonard McNally, lawyer and English informer, dies

February 13, 1820

Massacre of Glencoe, Scotland

February 13, 1692

While the other MacDonald clans suffered through the 1500s, the MacDonalds of Glencoe survived notably well.

William and Mary, daughter of James II are proclaimed king and queen jointly

February 13, 1689

Treaty of Westminster-Ardtornish between the Lord of the Isles and Edward IV, the King of England

February 13, 1462

Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Dalriada and the Picts, died at Forteviot

February 13, 0858

Daniel Corkery, writer, critic and Irish cultural enthusiast, is born in Cork

February 14, 1878

Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone (Patent 174461)

February 14, 1876

Frank Harris, writer and journalist, is born in Galway

February 14, 1856

The Queen Victoria sinks in a storm off Howth, with the loss of 55 lives

February 14, 1853

Pianist and composer John Field gives his first public performance at the Rotunda in Dublin

February 14, 1792

A subsidy is authorized to Louis Crommellin for establishing a linen industry

February 14, 1700

Valentine Greatrakes, a physician who is known as the touch doctor, is born in Affane, Co. Waterford

February 14, 1629

Valentine Greatorex (1628-1683), born in Affane Castle in West Waterford, was a noted Stroker or healer who cured a dying King and won a place of honour in the Royal Household of Britain where he died …