Today on Celtic History on

November 9th

Wed 09 Nov 1949

Dylan Marlais Thomas Welsh poet died

Tue 09 Nov 1937

Ramsay MacDonald, first UK Labour Prime Minister, died aboard Reina del Pacifico

Tue 09 Nov 1926

Birth in Dublin of Hugh Leonard, pseudonym of John Keyes Byrne, playwright

Tue 09 Nov 1875

Sir Hugh Lane, art collector and critic, is born in Ballybrack, Co. Cork

Tue 09 Nov 1847

Sir James Young Simpson helps delivers first child to be born with the aid of anesthesia

Tue 09 Nov 1841

King Edward VII, was born

Wed 09 Nov 1791

James Napper Tandy convenes the first meeting of Dublins United Irishmen