September

Thomas Ashe dies in the Mater Hospital in Dublin from the combined effects of a hunger strike and forced feeding at Mountjoy Jail. The following famous and much repeated Sean O’Casey quote You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea... you cannot co

September 25, 1917

Ronnie Whelan, Home Farm, Liverpool, Reading and Republic of Ireland footballer, is born in Dublin

September 25, 1961

All men of good will to the king, both Irish and English, in Munster and Leinster are summoned to Buttevant in Leix (Queens County). A ten day expedition which begins on this date, subdues and forces the local Irish into an uneasy peace

September 26, 1289

Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway (Eiriksdotter) died, en route from Norway to Scotland.

September 26, 1290

Thomas Tonkin - Cornish historian born

September 26, 1678

The Cornish historian Thomas Tonkin was born in St. Agnes, Cornwall, in 1678.

Charles Lucas, physician, MP and political radical, is born in Ballingaddy, Ennis, Co. Clare

September 26, 1713

First convicts from Ireland arrive in New South Wales, Australia

September 26, 1791

Between 1788 and 1868, about 162,000 convicts were transported from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia.

First Open Golf Championship held at Prestwick. There were eight entrants and the championship was won by Willie Park of Musselburgh.

September 26, 1860

James Dillon, politician and Fine Gael leader is born in Dublin

September 26, 1902

Saor Éire, a republican-socialist party, is founded by Peadar ODonnell, Seán MacBride and other IRA members; it, the IRA and ten other organizations are declared illegal in the Free State on 23 October, and the Catholic Church excommunicates members of a

September 26, 1930

De Valera opens the 13th Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva

September 26, 1932

Liner Queen Mary launched at John Browns shipyard, Clydebank

September 26, 1934