April 28

The Daíl introduces a bill awarding pensions to the Connaught Rangers who mutinied in India in 1920

April 28, 1936

Nicky Rackard, Wexford hurler, is born in Killane, Co. Wexford

April 28, 1922

William Soutar, poet, born in Perth

April 28, 1898

Teresa Kearney, better known as Mother Kevin, is born in Knockenrahan, Co. Wicklow

April 28, 1875

William Ellison, clergyman and the sixth director of the Armagh Observatory, is born

April 28, 1864

Rev. William Jackson, agent of French revolutionary government, is arrested in Dublin

April 28, 1794

Henry Dundas, powerful politician, known as Uncrowned King of Scotland, born.

April 28, 1742

Sir Wentworth Harman, MP for Lanesborough, coming in a dark night from Chapel-Izod, his coach overturning, tumbled down a precipice, and he dies

April 28, 1714

Rhys ap Gruffydd - King of South Wales, died.

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