August 26

August 26, 1940

German aircraft bomb a creamery at Campile, Co. Wexford; three women are killed

August 26, 1921

Re-election of Éamon de Valera President of Dáil Éireann

August 26, 1913

Also known as The Great Dublin Lockout, the Dublin Transport Strike, led by Jim Larkin and James Connolly, begins

August 26, 1904

Lord Dunraven forms the Irish Reform Association to campaign for some devolution

August 26, 1875

John Buchan, Novelist and statesman, born in Perth.

August 26, 1798

Humber leaves Ballina bound for Castlebar. He takes an indirect route through the mountains

August 26, 1725

Five Dublin children receive the first recorded smallpox innoculations in Ireland

August 26, 1651

Manx invasion of England turned back at Battle of Wigan.