Today on Celtic History on

September 8th

Fri 08 Sep 1933

Founding of Fine Gael Party

Tue 08 Sep 1931

Birth of Desmond Guinness, author and conservationist

Tue 08 Sep 1908

Poet, educator and eventual Easter Rising rebel Patrick Pearse opens St. Ednas school for boys (Scoil Eanna), combining new European theories of education with a focus on the glory of the Gaelic past

Wed 08 Sep 1852

A conference of the Tenant League in Dublin adopts a policy of independent opposition in Parliament

Wed 08 Sep 1830

Thomas Nicholas Burke, Dominican friar, preacher and lecturer, is born in Galway

Tue 08 Sep 1812

John Martin, revolutionary, transportee and politician, is born near Newry, Co. Down

Sat 08 Sep 1798

Battle of Ballinamuck, Ireland , last battle of The Year of the French.

Sat 08 Sep 1798

Battle of Ballinamuck - last major battle of The Year of the French; after a short fight, Humbert surrenders

Mon 08 Sep 1783

A second convention of Dungannon - a gathering of Volunteers from Ulster- is held and prepares the way for a National Volunteer convention on parliamentary reform