Ireland

Jack White, journalist and author, is born in Cork

Captain James Robert “Jack” White, DSO (1879–1946) was an Irish republican and libertarian socialist.

Sir William Wheeler, surgeon, is born in Dublin

Birth of novelist Maurice Walsh in Listowel

Maurice Walsh (21 April 1879 – 18 February 1964) was an Irish novelist, now best known for his short story “The Quiet Man”, later made into the Oscar-winning film The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. He was one of Ireland’s best-selling authors in the 1930s. A new musical based on his novel, Castle Gillian, is currently in development by Victor Kazan (Book & Lyrics), Kevin Purcell (Music) and Mark Buys (Dance Music).

Robert Lynd, essayist and critic, is born in Belfast

Robert Wilson Lynd (20 April 1879 – 6 October 1949) was an Irish writer, editor of poetry, urbane literary essayist, socialist and Irish nationalist.

Terence MacSwiney, Irish patriot and Lord Mayor of Cork, is born

Terence James MacSwiney (/məkˈswiːni/; Irish: Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne; 28 March 1879 – 25 October 1920) was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920.

Joseph James O'Neill, writer and civil servant, was born 18 December 1878 at Tuam, Co. Galway

Joseph James O’Neill (1886-1952) was an Irish novelist and civil servant and was born on December 18, 1878. O’Neill claimed later in his life that he was born in the Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland, in 1886, but he was in fact born in the inland Galway town of Tuam, preferring, as a writer, the perceived romance of being born in the Gaelic-speaking islands. He did spend much of his boyhood on the Aran Islands where his father, Martin O’Neill, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and his wife Mary (née Quigley) had been stationed. Irish was the language of the household.

Sir William Orpen, painter, in Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, born

. Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) in Stillorgan, County Dublin, Ireland He was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in Edwardian society, though many of his most striking paintings are self-portraits.

Margaret Cousins, suffragist and Indias first female magistrate, is born in Boyle, Co. Roscommon

Margaret Cousins, born Margaret Gillespie, was a notable suffragist and social activist. She was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, on October 07, 1878.

Between October 24 and this date, Fenians propose a New Departure - an alliance with the Parnellites

Birth of Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, Irish womens rights activist.