September

Michael Corcoran, Union General, is born in Co. Donegal

September 21, 1827

Novelist (notably Ivanhoe and Talisman) and poet Sir Walter Scott died aged, 61.

September 21, 1832

Revolutionary Éamonn Ceannt, is born in Glenamaddy, County Galway

September 21, 1881

Artist Tom Carr is born is Belfast

September 21, 1909

Birth of Mariga Guinness, née Princess Hermione Marie Gabrielle von Urach, Countess Württemberg; co-founder of Irish Georgian Society

September 21, 1932

Duke Fransez II sets up a Breton national assembly.

September 22, 1485

The house of Tudor ruled England, Wales and Ireland from 1485 to 1603.

Battle of Kinsale

September 22, 1601

Charles I offers twenty-six concessions (graces) to the Irish in return for subsidies to expand his army

September 22, 1626

Colonel Trench marches from Castlebar and takes Ballina

September 22, 1798

Patrick Moore, Confederate General, is born in Galway

September 22, 1821

Col. James Mulligan, who commanded Mulligans Irish Brigade, dies of wounds sustained at the 3rd Battle of Winchester

September 22, 1864

The gunboat HMS Wasp is wrecked off Tory Island, Co. Donegal, with the loss of 52 lives; there are eight survivors

September 22, 1884