Today on Celtic History on

August 23rd

Sun 23 Aug 1305

William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled, beheaded, and quartered in London

Sun 23 Aug 1170

Strongbow, a henchman of Henry II, arrives in Waterford at the behest of Dermot McMurrough, an event described in the Annals of Ulster as he beginning of the woes of Ireland