April 08

Edward Mulhare, actor, is born in Co. Cork

April 8, 1923

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

April 8, 1923

Home Rule Bill introduced in English Parliament by Gladstone

April 8, 1886

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

April 8, 1867

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

April 8, 1861

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

April 8, 1834

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

April 8, 1816

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

April 8, 1805

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

April 8, 1719