2002 John B. Keane, Irish Playwright
2000 Joey Dunlop, Irish Celebrity
2000 Frank Patterson, Irish tenor, dies at 61
1999 Lord Killanin, Irish Journalist
1998 Twenty nine murdered by Irish terrorists in Omagh, Northern Ireland
1996 Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87
1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1995 Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47
1994 Irish government of Reynolds resigns
1994 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA
1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
1992 Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82
1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
1992 William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/Brit playwright (Alfie), dies at 81
1991 Sean O'Faolain, [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91
1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade
1991 Members of Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization march in New York City parade
1990 Tomas O'Fiach, [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies
1990 John S. Bell, Irish Physicist
1989 Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83
1988 Peter Langan, Irish restaurateur (Langans London), dies in fire
1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83
1987 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes
1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
1986 Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25
1986 U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
1984 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Smirnoff Ladies Irish Golf Open
1984 Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist
1983 Rebecca West, Irish Author
1983 Samantha Mumba, Irish Musician
1982 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland
1982 Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon), dies at 60
1982 Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), dies at 58
1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks
1982 Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90
1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike
1981 Bobby Sands, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike
1980 Robbie Keane, Irish Athlete
1977 Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections
1977 Ronan Keating, born in Bayside Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer for Boyzone
1976 Dominic Monaghan, Irish Actor
1976 Shane Lynch, born in Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer, Boyzone
1976 Colin Farrell, Irish Actor
1976 Stephen Gately, born in Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer, Boyzone
1975 Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59), dies at 92
1974 Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1974 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21
1974 Keith Duffy, born in Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer, Boyzone
1974 Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies at 76
1974 Andrea Corr, Irish Musician
1973 Caroline Corr, Irish Musician
1972 Stephen O'Connor, Irish amateur snooker champ 1990
1972 Mikey Graham, born in Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer, Boyzone
1972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in New York City" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" and "Luck of the Irish"
1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
1972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
1972 Stuart Townsend, Irish Actor
1972 Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90
1971 Kenny Cunningham, Irish Athlete
1971 Dylan Moran, Irish Comedian
1968 Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7
1967 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies
1966 Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier
1965 Fiachna O'Braonain, Irish pop guitarist, Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go
1965 Eddie Irvine, Irish Celebrity
1964 Liam O'Maonlai, Irish vocalist/pianist, Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry
1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Playboy of Western World), dies at 84
1964 Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41
1963 Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80
1963 Kevin Shields, Irish Musician
1963 Graham Norton, Irish Celebrity
1961 Walter Swimburn, Irish jockey, Derby 1981
1960 Bono, Irish Musician
1959 Gavin Friday, [Fionan Hanvey], Irish singer, Virgin Prunes
1959 John Sykes, Irish hard rock guitarist, Thin Lizzy-Blue Murder
1959 Eric Blore, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70
1958 Michael Flatley, born in Chicago, Illinois, Irish choreographer, Lord of Dance
1958 Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress
1957 Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
1957 Joyce Cary, Irish Novelist
1957 Amanda Burton, Irish Actress
1956 Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist, Hothouse Flowers-People
1955 Leo Barnes, Irish saxophonist, Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry, Don't Go
1955 Michael Chekhov, actor (Rhapsody, Abie's Irish Rose), dies at 64
1954 Sammy McIlroy, Irish soccer star
1952 Gary Moore, Irish rock guitarist, Skid Row-Oh Pretty Woman
1952 Joey Dunlop, Irish Celebrity
1951 Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66
1951 Bertie Ahern, Irish Politician
1951 Mary McAleese, born in Irish Statesman
1951 Scott Gorham, Irish hard rock guitarist, Thin Lizzy-21 Guns
1950 James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68
1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94
1950 Chris De Burgh, [Davidson], Argent/Irish rock vocalist, Lady in Red
1950 Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56
1950 Dick Spring, Irish Politician
1950 Martin McGuinness, Irish Politician
1949 Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70
1949 Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, Irish snooker player, 2X world-champ
1948 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
1948 Gerry Adams, Irish Politician
1947 Jim Walsh, Irish Politician
1947 Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71
1946 George Best, Irish Athlete
1946 Peter Sutherland, CEO, Allied Irish Banks
1945 John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies
1945 Alan Dukes, Irish president (Fine Gael
1945 Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist, Nobel 1976
1944 David Trimble, Irish Politician
1940 Maeve Binchy, Irish Novelist
1940 Johnny Giles, Irish Soldier
1939 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), dies in France at 73
1938 Terry "5 Wigs" Wogan, British talk show host, Irish Days
1938 Terry Wogan, Irish Entertainer
1938 John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge
1937 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
1937 Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
1937 Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
1937 John Hume, Irish Politician
1936 William FA Ellison, Irish clergyman/astronomer, dies at 72
1935 Keith J Roberts, England, writer, Irish Encounter, Ladies from Hell
1935 Ruby Murray, Irish pop singer, Softly Softly
1933 John Joly, Irish Scientist
1932 Lady Gregory, Irish Dramatist
1932 Albert Reynolds, Irish Politician
1931 Malachy McCourt, Irish Actor
1931 Frank Harris, Irish Author
1931 Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author, Real Lace: America's Irish Rich
1931 Timothy Healy, Irish Politician
1931 John Atkinson, Irish Judge
1930 1st Irish Sweepstake run
1930 Jennifer P Johnston, Irish author, Fool's sanctuary
1929 Irish McCalla, Pawnee City, Nebraska, actress, Sheena Queen of Jungle
1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
1929 Val Doonican, Irish singer/entertainer
1928 John B. Keane, Irish Playwright
1928 John S. Bell, Irish Physicist
1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75
1927 Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated
1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
1926 Frank Carson, Irish Comedian
1925 Charles Haughey, Irish president, 1979-81, 82, 87-92
1924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer, Kiss in Dark
1924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/ composer and conductor, dies at 65
1924 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71
1924 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71
1923 Irish Free state joins League of Nations
1923 Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
1923 Herbert Trench, Irish Poet
1922 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
1922 King George V proclaims Irish Free state
1922 Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
1922 William T. Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins
1922 Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush
1922 Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies
1922 "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
1922 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
1922 Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer
1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
1918 John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St. Paul, dies at 80
1918 Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I), dies at 36
1918 Margo, singer, Golden Irish Favorites
1917 Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian, Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy
1917 Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish Politician
1916 Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51
1916 Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1914 Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent
1914 Lord Killanin, Irish Journalist
1914 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
1913 Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies
1913 Edward Dowden, Irish Critic
1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
1912 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies
1912 Christopher Casson, Irish actor, Zardoz, Educating Rita
1911 Flann O'Brien, Irish Writer
1911 George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85
1909 Roddy Doyle, irish Novelist
1909 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37
1909 John Synge, Irish Poet
1908 Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP
1907 August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59
1907 William Howard Russell, Irish Journalist
1906 Phil Regan, singer, My Wild Irish Rose
1904 Patrick Kavanagh, Irish Poet
1904 J. M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society
1904 Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat/president, U.N. General Assembly
1901 Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist
1901 Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher, Daily Mirror
1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
1900 Piet de Law captures Lt-colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry
1900 John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle
1898 Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet
1897 Kate O'Brien, Irish writer, Without My Cloak
1897 Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
1895 Robert Graves, Irish Novelist
1891 Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
1891 Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician
1891 Michael Chekhov, Russia, actor, Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody
1890 Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor and playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67
1890 John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet
1889 William Allingham, Irish poet (Day and Night Songs), dies at 68
1887 Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine, 1945-48
1885 Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71
1885 Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer, Caranchos de la Florida
1884 John McCormack, Irish/US singer, Irish folksongs
1883 Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral, WW II
1882 Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler, WW I
1882 James Stephens, Irish poet, Crock of Gold
1881 Padraic Colum, Irish poet and novelist /poet, Collected Poems
1880 William T. Cosgrave, president Irish Free state
1879 Isaac Butt, Irish Politician
1879 Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic, Pleasures of Ignorance
1878 Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer, Time and Gods
1878 Paul Cullen, Irish Clergyman
1875 John Mitchel, Irish Journalist
1874 Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer
1872 Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Fein
1871 John Synge, Irish Poet
1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec
1870 Jem Mace and defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch
1868 Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution
1868 Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy, Irish patriot/playwright/MP
1866 Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec
1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to U.S. forces
1866 Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft. Erie, Ontario from U.S.
1866 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
1865 Maude Gonne, Irish nationalist, Irish Joan of Arc
1865 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician
1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32
1865 Herbert Trench, Irish Poet
1864 George Boole, Irish Mathematician
1864 Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist, Easter uprising 1916
1864 William F. A. Ellison, Irish clergyman/director, Armagh Observatory
1863 Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 65
1863 Battle of Irish Bend, Louisiana (Ft. Bisland)
1857 John Joly, Irish Scientist
1855 Timothy Healy, Irish Politician
1854 Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader, Irish Unionist Party
1852 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist/composer
1852 Lady Gregory, Irish Dramatist
1851 John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house member
1849 Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist
1849 Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist
1847 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author, Dracula
1847 Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
1847 Daniel O'Connell, Irish Politician
1846 Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member
1846 Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician
1844 John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet
1844 John Atkinson, Irish Judge
1843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy
1843 Edward Dowden, Irish Critic
1843 Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet
1840 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer, Irish Land League
1840 Robert S. Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer
1839 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
1838 John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St. Paul
1837 John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54
1830 Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist, Miss Misanthrope
1826 George J Stoney, Irish physicist
1822 Dion Boucicault, Irish/Us actor and playwright, Rip van Winkle
1821 William Howard Russell, Irish Journalist
1821 William Allingham, Irish poet, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland
1817 John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant
1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright
1816 Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright
1815 John Mitchel, Irish Journalist
1814 Aubrey de Vere, Irish writer, Victorian Observer
1813 Isaac Butt, Irish Politician
1812 Edmund Malone, Irish Editor
1812 Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist
1810 1st Irish magazine in U.S., Shamrock, is published
1806 James Smith, Irish/US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 87
1806 Daniel Maclise, Irish painter
1805 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician
1805 Arthur Murphy, Irish Writer
1803 Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed
1803 Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88
1803 Paul Cullen, Irish Clergyman
1798 Theobald W. Tone, Irish nationalist, dies
1798 Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
1798 Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller, Fairy legends
1797 Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore
1793 Francis Danby, Irish painter
1789 Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist
1788 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder, Disciples of Christ
1787 John Burke, Irish genealogist, Burke's Peerage
1779 Thomas Moore, Irish Poet
1776 Daniel O'Connell, Irish Politician
1774 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17
1768 Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist
1768 Laurence Stern, Irish Clergyman
1767 Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist
1763 Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist
1763 Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot
1762 Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist
1755 George Barrington, Irish Celebrity
1751 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright
1751 Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright
1750 John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant
1741 Edmund Malone, Irish Editor
1727 Arthur Murphy, Irish Writer
1722 Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies
1713 Laurence Stern, Irish Clergyman
1707 George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist
1656 James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies at 76
1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1599 Earl van Essex and Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty
1541 Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1171 Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies
615 Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies
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