Today on Celtic History on

September 25th

Mon 25 Sep 1961

Ronnie Whelan, Home Farm, Liverpool, Reading and Republic of Ireland footballer, is born in Dublin

Tue 25 Sep 1917

Thomas Ashe dies in the Mater Hospital in Dublin from the combined effects of a hunger strike and forced feeding at Mountjoy Jail. The following famous and much repeated Sean O’Casey quote You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea... you cannot co

Sat 25 Sep 1880

Viscount Mountmorres is killed near Clonbur, Co. Galway

Sat 25 Sep 1875

John Hughes Bennett, pioneer microscopist, died.

Sat 25 Sep 1819

George Salmon, mathematician and professor of divinity, is born in Cork

Sun 25 Sep 1267

England Recognizes Llywelyn and his heirs as Kings of Wales and recognized the borders of their territory.