August 28

August 28, 1969

Welsh Office approves limited use of bilingual road signs in Wales

August 28, 1929

Health And Efficiency becomes the very first publication banned by the Irish Free State

August 28, 1896

Birth of Liam OFlaherty

August 28, 1877

Charles Stewart Parnell becomes president of Home Rule Confederation

August 28, 1872

The first horse drawn tram cars enter service in Belfast

August 28, 1860

Napiers and Deasys Land Acts are passed

August 28, 1815

Mary Letitia Martin, Princess of Connemara is born in Ballynahinch Castle, Co. Galway

August 28, 1814

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, novelist and journalist, is born in Dublin

August 28, 1798

Cornwallis reaches Athlone; Humbert entrenches in Castlebar

August 28, 1788

Sir Aubrey de Vere, poet, is born in Adare, Co. Limerick

August 28, 1788

James Digges La Touche, banker and philanthropist, is born in Dublin

August 28, 1741

Earl of Wintoun died, aged, 100.

August 28, 1710

A board of trustees for linen manufacture is established

August 28, 1296

Edward I of England held a parliament at Berwick to which he summoned all Scottish landholders to sign the Ragman Roll.

August 28, 1170

Richard de Clare marries Aoife Ní Mhurrachadha and sets a precedent for Norman rule in Ireland