Sun 10 Apr 1988

Sandy Lyle becomes the first Scottish (and British) golfer to win the US Masters tournament.

Wed 10 Apr 1918

British Parliament proposes conscription in Ireland

Tue 10 Apr 1917

Yann Ber Kalloch, a great Breton poet dies in the First World War

Wed 10 Apr 1867

George William Russell (pseudonym A. E. Russell); poet, painter, writer, economist and mystic, is born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh

Tue 10 Apr 1866

Campobello New Brunswick Irish-American Fenians attack Campobello Island from Eastport, Maine; they are persuaded to leave by British warships and US agents

Mon 10 Apr 1865

Oliver Sheppard, sculptor, is born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone

Tue 10 Apr 1838

Fr. Theobald Mathew, with the support of William Martin, a quaker, founds the total abstinence movement in Cork

Wed 10 Apr 1816

Birth of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist, in Monaghan

Wed 10 Apr 1726

Birth of William Brownlow, parliamentarian and Volunteer

Mon 10 Apr 1662

A charter of Charles II replaces Cromwells charter of Londonderry

Sun 10 Apr 1650

Cromwells New Model Army is victorious at Macroom, Co. Cork

Wed 10 Apr 1512

King James V was born at Linlithgow Palace, son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor

Sun 10 Apr 1346

Following the death of Ralph de Ufford, Roger Darcy is appointed justiciar