Today on Celtic History on

September 1st

Wed 01 Sep 1971

Sole remaining gas street lamp in Glasgow was lit for the last time, bringing to an end the age of the leeries, the lamplighters which started in, 1718 with oil lamps.

Thu 01 Sep 1870

Isaac Butt founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule is now the objective of constitutional nationalists

Thu 01 Sep 1864

Roger Casement, British consular official and Irish nationalist, is born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin

Mon 01 Sep 1856

Birth of Irish Nationalist Party leader John Redmond in Ballytrent, Co. Wexford

Wed 01 Sep 1830

Dublin Zoo opens

Wed 01 Sep 1830

The Wild Colonial Boy is shot dead in a gun battle with police at Cambelltown, Sydney. Contrary to the popular song, The Wild Colonial Boy was John Donohue, transported from Ireland in 1824

Thu 01 Sep 1814

Birth of James OFlanagan, author, in Fermoy, Co. Cork

Tue 01 Sep 1789

Marguerite Gardiner, nee Power; Countess of Blessington; author, is born near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

Sun 01 Sep 1737

Launch of the Belfast Newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world

Thu 01 Sep 1729

Death of dramatist, essayist and publisher Sir Richard Steele, the Dubliner who founded The Tatler and The Spectator

Fri 01 Sep 1719

Marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stewart (the Old Pretender) and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska. The Polish Princess had been kidnapped on her way to the original wedding, escaped and had married James by proxy earlier in, 1719.

Thu 01 Sep 1644

Battle of Tippermuir, in which Marquis of Montrose defeated Covenanters .

Tue 01 Sep 1643

Battle of Tippermuir, Highland army under Montrose defeats larger army of convenanters (despite their battle cry of- Jesus and No Quarter)

Tue 01 Sep 0714

Death of St Giles, patron saint of Edinburgh (and Elgin).