Today on Celtic History on

December 24th

Mon 24 Dec 1923

Joe Lacey, Irish Hunger Striker died during the 1923 Irish hunger strikes

Sat 24 Dec 1791

Sir Thomas Wyse, politician and diplomat, is born in St John, Co. Waterford

Mon 24 Dec 1449

Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler (b. 1385), died

Mon 24 Dec 1449

William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer, died