April 08

April 08, 1923

Edward Mulhare, actor, is born in Co. Cork

April 08, 1923

Gretta Bowen, artist known as the Irish Grandma Moses, died

April 08, 1886

Home Rule Bill introduced in English Parliament by Gladstone

April 08, 1867

A. E. (George Russell), pivotal Irish Renaissance poet, painter, journalist and mystic, is born

April 08, 1861

John George Adair evicts 244 tenants on his estate at Derryveagh, Co. Donegal

April 08, 1834

Sir Jonah Barrington, the Irish Parliaments leading opponent of the Union with Britain and author, dies

April 08, 1816

Sir Frederick Burton, painter, is born in Corofin, Co. Clare

April 08, 1805

Sir William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician and astronomer, is born in Dublin

April 08, 1719

Viscount Edmond Pery, speaker of the House of Commons, born