November

Samhain - Celtic New Year

November 1

Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year, for the Celts divided the year into two seasons: the light and the dark, at Beltane on May 1st and Samhain on November 1st.

The Toleration Act for Protestant Dissenters is passed

November 02, 1719

Philip Twisden, Bishop of Raphoe, dies

November 02, 1752

Philip Twisden, Bishop of Raphoe and son-in-law of the politician Thomas Carter, dies bankrupt on this date, having been shot while allegedly masquerading as a highwayman"

Tyrone Power, actor and great-grandfather of the Hollywood movie star of the same name, is born

November 02, 1797

Thomas (Buck) Whaley, MP for Enniscorthy, dies at Knutsford

November 02, 1800

Thomas (Buck) Whaley, MP for Enniscorthy, dies at Knutsford, apparently on his way from Liverpool to London.

Henry Smith, mathematician, born in Dublin

November 02, 1826

Association for Vindication of Scottish Rights (Home Rule organization) founded in Edinburgh

November 02, 1853

Expressions of this Scottish nationalism were seen in the setting up in 1853 of the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights.

Tom Johnston, one of Scotland’s best known Secretaries of State, born.

November 02, 1881

Edmund Mortimer, 6th Earl of Ulster, holds a parliament at Dublin, which confirms the Statutes of Kilkenny

November 03, 1380

The only session of the exclusively Protestant Irish parliament of William III and Mary ends on this date

November 03, 1692

The Darien Expedition landed at Caledonia in Panama

November 03, 1698

Henry Luttrell, soldier and suspected betrayer of the Jacobites, is assassinated in Dublin

November 03, 1717