September

Faithful Tadpole is admitted as a clerical vicar choral of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

September 24, 1661

Sir Arthur Guinness is born in Celbridge, Co. Kildare

September 24, 1725

Birth of Charles Bianconi, Irish passenger-car entrepreneur

September 24, 1786

United Irishman, Bartholomew Teeling, is hanged in Dublin

September 24, 1798

James Moore ODonell, former MP for Ratoath, is killed in a duel with Major Denis Bingham in a feud over Co. Mayo politics

September 24, 1801

Beginning of famous boycott against Irish landlord Captain Boycott.

September 24, 1880

Refusing to work for offending landlords, farmers demonstrated their united power in Mayo against Captain Boycott in 1880.

Mayo agent, Captain Charles Boycott, was sent to a moral Coventry. He described his plight in a letter to The Times ...people collect in crowds upon my farm and order off all my workmen. The shopkeepers have been warned to stop all supplies to my hous

September 24, 1880

Birth of Scotland international footballer and later TV personality Ally McCoist.

September 24, 1962

England Recognizes Llywelyn and his heirs as Kings of Wales and recognized the borders of their territory.

September 25, 1267

Llywelyn was the second son of Gruffudd, the eldest, but illegitimate, son of Llywelyn the Great.

George Salmon, mathematician and professor of divinity, is born in Cork

September 25, 1819

John Hughes Bennett, pioneer microscopist, died.

September 25, 1875

Viscount Mountmorres is killed near Clonbur, Co. Galway

September 25, 1880