Home /calendar /june /June 25, 1971On June 25, 1971 in Celtic HistoryLord boyd orr, biologist and nobel prize winner, died.Share : More From This Daycalendar 1938Dr. Douglas Hyde inaugurated as first President of Ireland; Seán T OCeallaigh, Eamon de Valera and Erskine Childers were all installed on the same day in 1945, 1959 and 1973 respectivelyJune 25, 1938calendar 1891Charles Stewart Parnell married Katherine OShea in EnglandJune 25, 1891calendar 1891The first Sherlock Holmes story by Edinburgh born author Arthur Conan Doyle was published in the Strand magazine.June 25, 1891calendar 1887Wallace statue unveiled at the Wallace National Monument, Stirling.June 25, 1887calendar 1876Seven Scots, including John Stuart Forbes, were in the US, 7th Cavalry with General Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.June 25, 1876calendar 1870Erskine Childers, novelist, member of the Royal Navy, and later an Irish nationalist, is born in London. He is famous for the classic spy yarn The Riddle Of The Sands. For more on his life, please click The Wild GeeseJune 25, 1870calendar 1804Kadoudal - Breton patriot, beheaded in Paris.June 25, 1804calendar 1799David Douglas, explorer and botanist, born at Scone, Perthshire. In addition to the Douglas Fir, he brought back to Europe lupins, phlox, penstemmon, sunflowers, clarkia, Californian poppy, mimulus, flowering currant, rose of sharon and mahonia.June 25, 1799calendar 1798Northern column fails to take Hacketstown, Co. Carlow and returns to camp at Croghan. Southern column marches from Slatt, to camp at Kilcumney Hill, Co. CarlowJune 25, 1798calendar 1783The Bank of Ireland is established in Dublin, by Royal charter. It issues its first notes, and opens to the public on this date; the Irish pound is worth £12-13 sterlingJune 25, 1783calendar 1731The Dublin Society for Improving Husbandry, (later to become the Royal Dublin Society on June 19, 1820), is founded on this dateJune 25, 1731
