Today on Celtic History on

February 23rd

Thu 23 Feb 1995

James Heriot, author of All Creatures Great and Small, died

Mon 23 Feb 1948

John Robert Gregg, Irish Inventor of Gregg Shorthand, died

Sat 23 Feb 1935

Thomas Murphy, a playwright, is born

Sun 23 Feb 1908

Sinn Fein contests its first election, County Leitrim

Mon 23 Feb 1874

Hugh Stevenson Robertson, Scottish composer of Songs of the Isles, born

Thu 23 Feb 1713

Nicola Hamilton, widow of Tristram Beresford MP, dies on her 47th birthday

Tue 23 Feb 1649

Giovanni Battista Rinuccini returns to Rome

Tue 23 Feb 1317

Bruces army marches south and reaches Castleknock, within sight of Dublin