Ireland

British Parliament proposes conscription in Ireland

John Redmond, Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party, died

John Edward Redmond (1 September 1856 – 6 March 1918) was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. He was best known as leader of the moderate Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) from 1900 until his death in 1918. He was also leader of the paramilitary organisation the Irish National Volunteers (INV).

Muriel Spark, author, born

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE FRSE FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.

Arthur Griffin is elected second president of Ireland by Dáil Éireann

Arthur Griffith (31 March 1871 - 12 August 1922) was the founder and first leader of Sinn Féin.

The 16th Irish Division of the British army assaults an area of the German lines known as Tunnel Trench

The 16th (Irish) Division was a formation of the British Army composed predominantly of Irish nationalist volunteers. It saw action on the Western Front, including notable engagements like the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

Birth of Conor Cruise OBrien, diplomat, political commentator and writer

John Boyd Dunlop Scottish inventor of the pneumatic rubber tire died.

Born into a farming family in Dreghorn in Ayrshire, John Boyd Dunlop was a veterinary surgeon by profession, having qualified at Edinburgh Veterinary College (now part of Edinburgh University ) when he was only 19. He worked as a vet in Edinburgh for n

Thomas Ashe dies in the Mater Hospital in Dublin from the combined effects of a hunger strike and forced feeding at Mountjoy Jail

Thomas Ashe, a key figure in the 1916 Rising and an officer in the Irish Volunteers, dies on 25 September 1917 in the Mater Hospital, Dublin. He had been on hunger strike in Mountjoy Jail, demanding prisoner-of-war status. Authorities subjected him to forced feeding, which ultimately caused his death due to a combination of trauma and neglect.

Birth of Jack Lynch, Taoiseach, in Co. Cork

Francis Ledwidge, died

Death of poet Francis Ledwidge, from Slane, Co. Meath, who is killed by a stray shell at Ypres during World War I