Today on Celtic History on

November 3rd

Sun 03 Nov 1991

Liz McColgan won her first marathon in a record time.

Mon 03 Nov 1975

Queen Elizabeth officially opened an underwater pipeline to bring the first North Sea oil ashore.

Thu 03 Nov 1932

Birth in Rooskey, Co. Roscommon of Albert Reynolds, politician and businessman, Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach from 1992-1994

Sat 03 Nov 1923

Tomás Ó Fiaich, cardinal, historian and Catholic Primate of All Ireland, is born in Cullyhanna, Co. Armagh

Sat 03 Nov 1917

Birth of Conor Cruise OBrien, diplomat, political commentator and writer

Tue 03 Nov 1903

Tomas O'Fiaich, Irish language author and Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh, is born

Fri 03 Nov 1854

The Catholic University of Ireland is opened with J. H. Newman as its first rector

Thu 03 Nov 1825

Potato Riots on Mann

Fri 03 Nov 1815

John Mitchel, patriot and founder of the newspaper the United Irishman, born

Mon 03 Nov 1788

Thomas Steele, landlord and supporter of Daniel OConnell is born in Derrymore, Co. Clare

Wed 03 Nov 1717

Henry Luttrell, soldier and suspected betrayer of the Jacobites, is assassinated in Dublin

Mon 03 Nov 1698

The Darien Expedition landed at Caledonia in Panama

Mon 03 Nov 1692

The only session of the exclusively Protestant Irish parliament of William III and Mary ends on this date

Fri 03 Nov 1380

Edmund Mortimer, 6th Earl of Ulster, holds a parliament at Dublin, which confirms the Statutes of Kilkenny