Today on Celtic History on

November 20th

Fri 20 Nov 1925

Eoin MacNeill, resigns from the Boundary Commission

Tue 20 Nov 1917

The 16th Irish Division of the British army assaults an area of the German lines known as Tunnel Trench

Fri 20 Nov 1908

Alistair Cooke, journalist, is born

Wed 20 Nov 1889

Donn Byrne, novelist and short-story writer, is born

Fri 20 Nov 1840

John Russell Young, journalist in American Civil War, from Co. Tyrone, born

Sat 20 Nov 1830

Patrick Henry Jones, Union General from Co. Meath, born

Thu 20 Nov 1800

Richard Rothwell, painter, is born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath

Sat 20 Nov 1762

Francis Andrews is appointed first professor of history at the University of Dublin