January

Percy French, writer of many popular Irish songs, dies

January 24, 1920

Charles Plummer, Irish language scholar and editor of Lives of the Irish Saints, is born

January 24, 1851

Charles Plummer, FBA (1851–1927) was an English historian and cleric, best known as the editor of Sir John Fortescue’s The Governance of England, and for coining the term “bastard …

King Charles II of England disbands Parliament

January 24, 1679

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.

Tomás Mac Giolla, republican and socialist, and later, Workers Party leader, is born near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary

January 25, 1924

Tomás Mac Giolla born Thomas Gill; 25 January 1924 – 4 February 2010) was an Irish Workers’ Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1993 to 1994, Leader of the Workers’ …

Edmund Hogan, Jesuit and scholar, is born in Cork

January 25, 1831

Edmund Ignatius Hogan S.J. (23 January 1831 – 26 November 1917) was an Irish Jesuit scholar.

First edition of the Edinburgh-based Scotsman newspaper, published

January 25, 1817

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

Daniel Maclise, painter, born in Co. Cork

January 25, 1806

Daniel Maclise RA (25 January 1806 – 25 April 1870) was an Irish history painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England.

John Hobart, The Earl of Buckinghamshire, is sworn in as lord lieutenant

January 25, 1777

There has been a Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire almost continuously since the position was created by King Henry VIII in 1535.

Robert Burns - Scottish Poet - born.

January 25, 1759

Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) was a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became an important source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism.

Robert Boyle, physicist, chemist and alchemist, is born in Lismore, Co. Waterford

January 25, 1627

Robert Boyle FRS (/bɔɪl/; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor.

The 1st Earl of Desmond dies; Kildare is his replacement as justiciar

January 25, 1356

Sir Thomas de Rokeby (died 1356 or 1357) was a soldier and senior Crown official in fourteenth-century England and Ireland, who served as Justiciar of Ireland.

King Edward III accedes to British throne

January 25, 1327

Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377.