Large supply of guns from Germany are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
April 24, 1913
Novelist R.M. Ballantyne, who wrote 90 books, the best known of which was The Coral Island, was born in Edinburgh.
April 24, 1825
Nathaniel Hone, portrait painter, is born in Dublin
April 24, 1718
Warrant issued by the Privy Council to Sir John Hepburn to raise a regiment of 1,200 men to fight in the French service.
April 24, 1633
Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
April 24, 1596
First printed book ever published in Gaelic.
April 24, 1567