March 08

Mary MacSwiney, Irish patriot, dies

March 8, 1942

Paddy Devlin, socialist politician, is born in Belfast

March 8, 1925

Sir James Comyn, lawyer, is born in Dublin

March 8, 1921

Francis MacManus, novelist, is born

March 8, 1909

Charles Gavan Duffy, Young Irelander, is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

March 8, 1903

Novelist Eric Linklater, son of an Orkney master mariner, born in Wales.

March 8, 1899

Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows born in Edinburgh

March 8, 1859

Tom Horan, Australian cricketer, is born

March 8, 1854

William Crotty, outlaw of the Comeragh mountains, is tried in Waterford

March 8, 1742

William III dies when his horse stumbles on a molehill

March 8, 1702

Anne Bonny, née Cormac, pirate, is born in Co. Cork

March 8, 1700

English expedition sets out from Galway to kill pirate queen, Grace O'Malley

March 8, 1594

Captain William Martin lays siege to Grace O'Malley in Rockfleet castle

March 8, 1574