Liner Queen Mary launched at John Browns shipyard, Clydebank

• September 26, 1934

De Valera opens the 13th Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva

• September 26, 1932

Saor Éire, a republican-socialist party, is founded by Peadar ODonnell, Seán MacBride and other IRA members; it, the IRA and ten other organizations are declared illegal in the Free State on 23 October, and the Catholic Church excommunicates members of a

• September 26, 1930

James Dillon, politician and Fine Gael leader is born in Dublin

• September 26, 1902

First Open Golf Championship held at Prestwick. There were eight entrants and the championship was won by Willie Park of Musselburgh.

• September 26, 1860

First convicts from Ireland arrive in New South Wales, Australia

• September 26, 1791

Between 1788 and 1868, about 162,000 convicts were transported from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia.

Charles Lucas, physician, MP and political radical, is born in Ballingaddy, Ennis, Co. Clare

• September 26, 1713

Thomas Tonkin - Cornish historian born

• September 26, 1678

The Cornish historian Thomas Tonkin was born in St. Agnes, Cornwall, in 1678. A member of the lesser gentry, Tonkin became MP for Helston and participated in Stannary Court business. Like many of his contemporaries he was involved in tin and copper mat

Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway (Eiriksdotter) died, en route from Norway to Scotland.

• September 26, 1290

All men of good will to the king, both Irish and English, in Munster and Leinster are summoned to Buttevant in Leix (Queens County). A ten day expedition which begins on this date, subdues and forces the local Irish into an uneasy peace

• September 26, 1289