Today on Celtic History on

November 24th

Sun 24 Nov 1996

Sorley MacLean, poet, died

Tue 24 Nov 1942

Comedian and actor Billy Connolly born

Fri 24 Nov 1922

Irish republican Erskine Childers is executed by the Free State government

Fri 24 Nov 1865

James Stephens, Fenian, escapes from Richmond prison, Dublin

Fri 24 Nov 1820

Arthur French, MP for Co. Roscommon, dies of excessive fox-hunting

Tue 24 Nov 1807

Henry Blosse Lynch, soldier and explorer, is born in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo

Fri 24 Nov 1713

Lawrence Sterne, clergyman, humorist, and author, is born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

Fri 24 Nov 1572

John Knox, leading reformer of Church of Scotland, died

Tue 24 Nov 1542

Rout of Solway Moss

Sat 24 Nov 1331

David II (aged, 7) crowned at Scone.

Tue 24 Nov 1265

Magnus, the last King of the Isle of Man died