April 10

April 10, 1988

Sandy Lyle becomes the first Scottish (and British) golfer to win the US Masters tournament.

April 10, 1918

British Parliament proposes conscription in Ireland

April 10, 1917

Yann Ber Kalloch, a great Breton poet dies in the First World War

April 10, 1867

George William Russell (pseudonym A. E. Russell); poet, painter, writer, economist and mystic, is born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh

April 10, 1866

Campobello New Brunswick Irish-American Fenians attack Campobello Island from Eastport, Maine

April 10, 1865

Oliver Sheppard, sculptor, is born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone

April 10, 1838

Fr. Theobald Mathew, with the support of William Martin, a quaker, founds the total abstinence movement in Cork

April 10, 1816

Birth of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist, in Monaghan

April 10, 1726

Birth of William Brownlow, parliamentarian and Volunteer

April 10, 1662

A charter of Charles II replaces Cromwells charter of Londonderry

April 10, 1650

Cromwells New Model Army is victorious at Macroom, Co. Cork

April 10, 1512

King James V was born at Linlithgow Palace, son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor

April 10, 1346

Following the death of Ralph de Ufford, Roger Darcy is appointed justiciar