Today on Celtic History on

April 26th

Thu 26 Apr 1923

Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon married the Duke of York at Westminster Abbey

Wed 26 Apr 1916

Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, writer, suffragist, pacifist and patriot, is arrested while trying to stop Easter Rising looting, he is later executed by the British without a trial

Tue 26 Apr 1904

Edward VII begins a visit to Ireland on this date

Fri 26 Apr 1895

The trial of Oscar Wilde for homosexuality, then a crime, begins at the Old Bailey

Tue 26 Apr 1881

Robert Williams Buchanan, a poet, novelist and dramatist, diet

Wed 26 Apr 1826

Robert Adamson, who collaborated with D O Hill to produce early portrait photography, born.

Tue 26 Apr 1808

Benjamin Burton, fractures his skull in a fall from his horse while hunting but, having apparently recovered, goes out again with the hounds and dies from brain fever

Mon 26 Apr 1784

Nano Nagle, Gods Beggar, founder of the Order of the Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, dies

Mon 26 Apr 1756

John Ponsonby is unanimously elected Speaker of the Irish parliament

Mon 26 Apr 1745

John Allen (3rd Viscount Allen), former MP for Carysfort, kills a dragoon in a street brawl

Tue 26 Apr 1718

Thomas St Lawrence, 13th Baron of Howth, receives £215 14s 1 1-2d for the expense he incurs in building a quay at Howth for landing coals for the lighthouse

Sun 26 Apr 1711

Philosopher David Hume born.