Today on Celtic History on

August 31st

Tue 31 Aug 1830

William Fitzpatrick, biographer and historian, is born in Dublin

Sun 31 Aug 1806

Birth in Dublin of Charles Lever; fiction writer who was famous for his rendering of Trinity Colleges privileged atmosphere

Wed 31 Aug 1803

French Irish Legion organized in Brittany

Mon 31 Aug 1767

Birth in Belfast of Henry Joy McCracken, United Irishman and leader of Ulster insurgents in 1798 rebellion

Wed 31 Aug 1644

Second Battle of Lostwithiel, 1644, the last major victory for Charles I and the Royalist side in the English Civil War. Major defeat of Cromwellian army at Fowey, Cornwall by Cornish royalists.