Today on Celtic History on

February 5th

Sat 05 Feb 1881

Thomas Carlyle, writer and historian, died in London

Thu 05 Feb 1880

The Irish Rugby Football Union is founded in Dublin

Wed 05 Feb 1840

John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish Inventor of the pneumatic rubber tire, born

Sat 05 Feb 1820

William Drennan, physician, poet, educator and political radical, dies