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August 22

August 22

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Beyond the Fringe, an influential satirical revue, opened in Edinburgh.

August 22, 1960

The National Guard is banned

August 22, 1933

Michael Collins - Irish general - killed

August 22, 1922

Violent clashes in Belfast

August 22, 1920

Dublin-born WWI ace Dennis Latimer shot down

August 22, 1918

Birth of Irish American actor Gene Kelly

August 22, 1912

Birth in Dublin of Mervyn Wall, writer who wrote under the pseudonym of Eugene Welply

August 22, 1908

Birth in Belfast of Sean McEntee, Fianna Fail politician

August 22, 1889

The Land Act gives courts the power to revise and fix rents

August 22, 1887

Second Gladstone Land Act introduces the three Fs - fair rent, fixity of tenure, free sale - and sets up the Land Commission

August 22, 1881

First Catholic Synod in Ireland since the Middle Ages in Thurles, Co. Tipperary

August 22, 1850

Birth of Sir Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, musician and composer.

August 22, 1847

John Keegan Casey , Fenian, poet and writer of Rising of the Moon is born near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath

August 22, 1846

A French force of 1,019 men under General Humbert lands at Killala, Co. Mayo

August 22, 1798

Frenchman General Humbert proclaims at Ballina, Co. Mayo, Union, liberty, the Irish Republic

August 22, 1798

Theobald Wolfe Tone publishes An argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland

August 22, 1791

Birth of Walter Hussey (Burgh), lawyer, politician and orator

August 22, 1742

King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham, initiating a Civil War in England

August 22, 1642

James VI abducted and taken to the Castle of Ruthven by the Earls of Mar and Gowrie the so-called Ruthven Raid.

August 22, 1582

James Stewart, Earl of Moray and a half-brother of Mary Queen of Scots, proclaimed Regent of Scotland.

August 22, 1567

Devorgilla, Countess of Galloway founded Balliol College, Oxford

August 22, 1282

Battle of the Standard at Northallerton in which King David I was defeated by the English.

August 22, 1138