Today on Celtic History on

October 20th

Wed 20 Oct 1971

Explosion at Clarkston Toll shopping centre, killing, 12.

Thu 20 Oct 1892

Birth near Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan of General Eoin O’Duffy, first commissioner of the Garda Síochána (Blue Shirts)

Thu 20 Oct 1881

The Land League is outlawed

Thu 20 Oct 1836

Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist, born

Thu 20 Oct 1808

Michael William Balfe, composer, dies in Dublin

Mon 20 Oct 1794

Duel between John Gustavus Crosbie and Sir Barry Denny, the sitting MP, the first fire Denny is shot fatally

Fri 20 Oct 1775

Two hundred passengers are lost in the shipwrecks of the brigs Trevor Totty and Nonpareil

Sat 20 Oct 1674

Birth of James Logan, Colonial statesman and scholar in Lurgan, Co. Armagh