November

Naomi Mitchison, Novelist and politician, born in Edinburgh

November 01, 1897

St. Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, born near Oldcastle, Co. Meath

November 01, 1625

Bank of Scotland founded by an Act of the Scottish Parliament

November 01, 1695

Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France is published

November 01, 1790

Sir Benjamin Guinness, owner of the Guinness brewery from 1855, is born in Dublin

November 01, 1798

Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College, Dublin, born

November 01, 1838

John Joly, geologist and physicist, is born in Co. Offaly

November 01, 1857

Founding of the Gaelic Athletic Association

November 01, 1884

Private James Daly, of the Connaught Rangers, is last member to be executed for mutiny

November 01, 1920

Following a mutiny in India by soldiers of the Connaught Rangers in protest at events in Ireland, Private James Daly, is court-martialled and executed by firing squad, last member of the British army …

The enrolment of the Ulster Special Constabulary begins

November 01, 1920

Kevin Barry, is hanged in Dublin

November 01, 1920

Kevin Barry, an 18-year-old medical student, is hanged in Dublin for his part in a raid in which six soldiers were killed

Demobilisation of the Irish Army begins

November 01, 1945