Today on Celtic History on

October 14th

Tue 14 Oct 1969

The, 50 pence decimal coin was first issued, replacing the ten shilling note.

Sat 14 Oct 1939

German submarine sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney, with the loss of, 810 lives.

Fri 14 Oct 1932

Strikes, marches and protests are held in Belfast against low unemployment payments, temporarily uniting Catholic and Protestant unemployed

Thu 14 Oct 1920

Tipperary IRA man, Sean Treacy, is killed in a gun battle in Talbot Street, Dublin

Sat 14 Oct 1882

Eamon de Valera, nationalist campaigner, Fianna Fáil leader, Taoiseach and president of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, NY of a Spanish father and an Irish mother

Fri 14 Oct 1881

Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, nearly, 20 boats and, 129 men (1 in, 3 of the towns male population) lost their lives in a storm.

Thu 14 Oct 1880

Nationalist and Gaelic League activist, Mary Ellen Spring-Rice is born

Fri 14 Oct 1842

First issue of The Nation published

Fri 14 Oct 1814

Birth of author and patriot, Thomas Osborne Davis in Mallow, Co. Cork

Fri 14 Oct 1791

Wolfe Tone visits Belfast for the first time

Tue 14 Oct 1788

First steamboat tested on Dalswinton Loch by Patrick Miller and William Symington.

Tue 14 Oct 1783

Edmond Sexton Pery is unanimously re-elected as Speaker of the Irish parliament

Wed 14 Oct 1767

George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Fri 14 Oct 1763

Birth of United Irish leader, Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Carton House in Co. Kildare

Sat 14 Oct 1702

Irish Brigade of France fights in the battle of Friedlingen

Wed 14 Oct 1693

The Earl of Tyrone dies, and spirit apparently appears promptly to Lady Nicola Hamilton making a number of predictions that turn out to be correct; one of them was that she would die on her 47th birthday

Sat 14 Oct 1690

After taking Cork on 28 September, Marlbourough takes Kinsale for the Williamites, who now control Munster

Fri 14 Oct 1633

Birth at St James Palace, London of King James VII, second son of King Charles I and brother of King Charles II.

Wed 14 Oct 1322

Victory of Robert the Bruce of Scotland in Yorkshire.

Fri 14 Oct 1318

Edward Bruce, brother of Robert the Bruce, killed in a battle near Dundalk, Ireland.

Sun 14 Oct 1285

Second marriage of King Alexander III (to Yolanda de Dreux).