The National Guard is banned
August 22, 1933
Michael Collins - Irish general - killed
August 22, 1922
Violent clashes in Belfast
August 22, 1920
Dublin-born WWI ace Dennis Latimer shot down
August 22, 1918
Birth of Irish American actor Gene Kelly
August 22, 1912
Birth in Dublin of Mervyn Wall, writer who wrote under the pseudonym of Eugene Welply
August 22, 1908
Birth in Belfast of Sean McEntee, Fianna Fail politician
August 22, 1889
The Land Act gives courts the power to revise and fix rents
August 22, 1887
Second Gladstone Land Act introduces the three Fs - fair rent, fixity of tenure, free sale - and sets up the Land Commission
August 22, 1881
John Keegan Casey , Fenian, poet and writer of Rising of the Moon is born near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
August 22, 1846
Frenchman General Humbert proclaims at Ballina, Co. Mayo, Union, liberty, the Irish Republic
August 22, 1798
James VI abducted and taken to the Castle of Ruthven by the Earls of Mar and Gowrie the so-called Ruthven Raid.
August 22, 1582