Today on Celtic History on

March 6th

Tue 06 Mar 1923

BBC Scotland founded

Wed 06 Mar 1918

John Redmond, Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party, died

Wed 06 Mar 1861

Patrick McCall, songwriter, is born in Dublin

Sun 06 Mar 1831

Philip Sheridan, US Union General in the American Civil War, is born

Sun 06 Mar 1791

John McHale, Archbishop of Tuam, is born in Trawler, Co. Mayo

Tue 06 Mar 1725

Last claimant to the Stuart throne, Henry I of Scotland (Henry IX of England), born

Fri 06 Mar 1457

King James II decreed in an Act of Parliament, that golf be utterly cried down and not used