Today on Celtic History on

March 8th

Sun 08 Mar 1942

Mary MacSwiney, Irish patriot, dies

Sun 08 Mar 1925

Paddy Devlin, socialist politician, is born in Belfast

Tue 08 Mar 1921

Sir James Comyn, lawyer, is born in Dublin

Mon 08 Mar 1909

Francis MacManus, novelist, is born

Sun 08 Mar 1903

Charles Gavan Duffy, Young Irelander, is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

Wed 08 Mar 1899

Novelist Eric Linklater, son of an Orkney master mariner, born in Wales.

Tue 08 Mar 1859

Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows born in Edinburgh

Wed 08 Mar 1854

Tom Horan, Australian cricketer, is born

Thu 08 Mar 1742

William Crotty, outlaw of the Comeragh mountains, is tried in Waterford

Wed 08 Mar 1702

William III dies when his horse stumbles on a molehill

Mon 08 Mar 1700

Anne Bonny, née Cormac, pirate, is born in Co. Cork

Tue 08 Mar 1594

English expedition sets out from Galway to kill pirate queen, Grace O'Malley

Fri 08 Mar 1574

Captain William Martin lays siege to Grace O'Malley in Rockfleet castle