Today on Celtic History on

October 22nd

Mon 22 Oct 1906

Charles Lynch, pianist, is born in Parkgariff, Co. Cork

Tue 22 Oct 1895

Daniel Owen considered the greatest Welsh language novelist died.

Mon 22 Oct 1877

A firedamp explosion at Blantyre Colliery killed, 207 miners.

Tue 22 Oct 1861

Foundation stones of main Post Office and National Museum of Scotland laid by Prince Albert in his last public engagement before his death.

Thu 22 Oct 1761

John Ponsonby is unanimously re-elected Speaker of the Irish parliament

Sat 22 Oct 1740

Birth in Dublin of Sir Philip Francis, civil servant, duellist, and gambler; he may have been the author of the Junius Letters

Tue 22 Oct 1641

Rory O'More, Lord Maguire and Sir Pheilim O'Neill initiate a major revolt in Armagh

Thu 22 Oct 1389

Thomas Mortimer who was appointed justiciar on 5 March is replaced by John de Stanley who lands at Howth on this date