September

Charles Cornwallis Chesney, professor of military history, is born in Kilkeel, Co. Down

September 29, 1826

Michael Mulhall, publisher and statistician, is born in Dublin

September 29, 1836

Birth in Kinvara, Co. Galway of Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the song, Galway Bay

September 29, 1854

Fenian Thomas Clarke is released from Portland Prison

September 29, 1898

Francis Llewellyn Harrison, musicologist, is born in Dublin

September 29, 1905

Birth of film star Greer Garson in Co. Down

September 29, 1908

The last active Fenian, John Devoy, dies

September 29, 1929

George Bernard Shaw refuses a peerage

September 29, 1930

John Cobb killed when his boat crashed while attemptting a world water-speed record on Loch Ness

September 29, 1952

Stone of Destiny on which generations of Scottish kings had been crowned, returned to Scotland, 700 years after it had been removed by King Edward I of England

September 29, 1996

Revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn, Caernarfon Castle taken by Welsh rebels.

September 30, 1294

At the end of the first building phase of Caernarfon Castle, the north wall of the castle had no wall, and was instead defended by the town walls and a wide rock cut ditch.

A great council meets at Dublin on on this date; it states that Irish enemies and English rebels have conquered almost all of Limerick, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Wexford, Carlow, Kildare, Meath and Louth, so that hardly anything but Co. Dublin remains in the c

September 30, 1430