Today on Celtic History on

October 21st

Fri 21 Oct 1983

The Queen officially opened the Burrell Collection in Glasgows Pollok Country Park. The museums collection had been donated to the city nearly, 40 years earlier by the shipping magnate Sir William Burrell.

Fri 21 Oct 1904

Birth of poet Patrick Kavanagh in Inishkeen, Co. Monaghan

Mon 21 Oct 1901

Douglas Hydes Casadh an tSúgán - The Twisting of the Rope - is presented at The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin and becomes the first staged Irish-language play

Tue 21 Oct 1879

Irish National Land League founded in Dublin.

Mon 21 Oct 1805

The Irish dead at the Battle of Trafalgar include Lieutenant William Ram, son of Abel Ram, MP for Co. Wexford, who is killed on board the Victory

Fri 21 Oct 1803

Execution of Thomas Russell, United Irishman, in Downpatrick for “high treason”