Today on Celtic History on

November 14th

Mon 14 Nov 1921

Roy McFadden, poet, is born in Belfast, Ireland

Thu 14 Nov 1918

Seumas O'Kelly, playwright, novelist , short story writer , and journalist, dies

Tue 14 Nov 1916

Author Hector Munro died in action in France

Mon 14 Nov 1910

Poet Norman MacCaig born Edinburgh, Scotland

Thu 14 Nov 1907

Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer, died.

Fri 14 Nov 1873

Michael Healy, stained-glass artist, illustrator and painter, is born in Dublin

Wed 14 Nov 1832

Stopford Brooke, born near Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, a chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria, writer and literary critic

Wed 14 Nov 1770

James Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile, Lake Tana in north-west Ethiopia.

Sun 14 Nov 1745

Bonnie Prince Charlie, accompanied by bagpipers, enters Carlisle Castle after their surrender

Thu 14 Nov 1715

The Glasgow Courant, the citys first newspaper first printed

Thu 14 Nov 1669

St. Oliver Plunkett becomes Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland