Today on Celtic History on

October 1st

Wed 01 Oct 1930

Richard Harris, born

Wed 01 Oct 1930

Actor Richard Harris is born in Limerick

Sun 01 Oct 1911

Statue of Charles Stewart Parnell is unveiled in Dublin

Sat 01 Oct 1796

The Royal College of St. Patrick. a Catholic seminary, is opened in Maynooth, Co. Kildare

Sat 01 Oct 1763

Contract to construct the North Bridge, Edinburgh, signed.

Thu 01 Oct 1761

In the climate of sectarian tension created partly by the Mathew-Maude controversy, the Whiteboys, a violent agrarian protest movement, begins in Tipperary and spreads through Munster and West Leinster

Sun 01 Oct 1600

Robert Grave, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, and his family drown in Dublin Bay on their way home to Wexford by sea

Tue 01 Oct 1568

The Bannatyne Manuscript, the most extensive collection of early Scottish poetry in existence, was published by George Bannatyne, an Edinburgh merchant.

Mon 01 Oct 1263

Invasion of Scotland by Hakon King of Norway attacked on beaches by gathering Scottish forces beginning the Battle of the Largs.