Today on Celtic History on

September 29th

Sun 29 Sep 1996

Stone of Destiny on which generations of Scottish kings had been crowned, returned to Scotland, 700 years after it had been removed by King Edward I of England

Mon 29 Sep 1952

John Cobb killed when his boat crashed while attemptting a world water-speed record on Loch Ness

Mon 29 Sep 1930

George Bernard Shaw refuses a peerage

Sun 29 Sep 1929

The last active Fenian, John Devoy, dies

Tue 29 Sep 1908

Birth of film star Greer Garson in Co. Down

Fri 29 Sep 1905

Francis Llewellyn Harrison, musicologist, is born in Dublin

Thu 29 Sep 1898

Fenian Thomas Clarke is released from Portland Prison

Fri 29 Sep 1854

Birth in Kinvara, Co. Galway of Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the song, Galway Bay

Thu 29 Sep 1836

Michael Mulhall, publisher and statistician, is born in Dublin

Fri 29 Sep 1826

Charles Cornwallis Chesney, professor of military history, is born in Kilkeel, Co. Down

Sat 29 Sep 1798

Tandy and other Irish political prisoners in Hamburg are handed over to British authorities

Tue 29 Sep 1778

Birth in Dublin of Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy

Mon 29 Sep 1732

Sir Henry Cavendish, politician and master of shorthand, who recorded parliamentary debates, born

Thu 29 Sep 1678

Count Peter Lacy, soldier, governor of Livonia (Latvia) and field-marshal in the Russian army, is born in Killeedy, Co. Limerick

Wed 29 Sep 1621

Charter granted to Sir William Alexander of Menstrie to colonize the Baronetcy of Nova Scotia.

Mon 29 Sep 1603

Rory O'Donnell kisses the kings hand and is created Earl of Tyrconnell

Sat 29 Sep 1364

Charles of Blois dies in the Battle of Auray

Thu 29 Sep 1155

A proposal for the invasion of Ireland by Henry II is discussed at the Council of Winchester and rejected, though soon after, Henry obtains a papal privilege approving the invasion