Sandy Lyle becomes the first Scottish (and British) golfer to win the US Masters tournament.
April 10, 1988
British Parliament proposes conscription in Ireland
April 10, 1918
George William Russell (pseudonym A. E. Russell); poet, painter, writer, economist and mystic, is born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh
April 10, 1867
Campobello New Brunswick Irish-American Fenians attack Campobello Island from Eastport, Maine
April 10, 1866
Fr. Theobald Mathew, with the support of William Martin, a quaker, founds the total abstinence movement in Cork
April 10, 1838
Birth of William Brownlow, parliamentarian and Volunteer
April 10, 1726