February 23

February 23, 1995

James Heriot, author of All Creatures Great and Small, died

February 23, 1948

John Robert Gregg, Irish Inventor of Gregg Shorthand, died

February 23, 1935

Thomas Murphy, a playwright, is born

February 23, 1908

Sinn Fein contests its first election, County Leitrim

February 23, 1874

Hugh Stevenson Robertson, Scottish composer of Songs of the Isles, born

February 23, 1713

Nicola Hamilton, widow of Tristram Beresford MP, dies on her 47th birthday

February 23, 1649

Giovanni Battista Rinuccini returns to Rome

February 23, 1317

Bruces army marches south and reaches Castleknock, within sight of Dublin