Today on Celtic History on

April 8th

Sun 08 Apr 1923

Edward Mulhare, actor, is born in Co. Cork

Sun 08 Apr 1923

Gretta Bowen, artist known as the Irish Grandma Moses, died

Thu 08 Apr 1886

Home Rule Bill introduced in English Parliament by Gladstone

Mon 08 Apr 1867

A. E. (George Russell), pivotal Irish Renaissance poet, painter, journalist and mystic, is born

Mon 08 Apr 1861

John George Adair evicts 244 tenants on his estate at Derryveagh, Co. Donegal

Tue 08 Apr 1834

Sir Jonah Barrington, the Irish Parliaments leading opponent of the Union with Britain and author, dies

Mon 08 Apr 1816

Sir Frederick Burton, painter, is born in Corofin, Co. Clare

Mon 08 Apr 1805

Sir William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician and astronomer, is born in Dublin

Sat 08 Apr 1719

Viscount Edmond Pery, speaker of the House of Commons, born

Tue 08 Jan 1107

King Alexander I crowned