March 08

March 08, 1942

Mary MacSwiney, Irish patriot, dies

March 08, 1925

Paddy Devlin, socialist politician, is born in Belfast

March 08, 1921

Sir James Comyn, lawyer, is born in Dublin

March 08, 1909

Francis MacManus, novelist, is born

March 08, 1903

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

March 08, 1899

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

March 08, 1859

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

March 08, 1854

Tom Horan, Australian cricketer, is born

March 08, 1742

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

March 08, 1702

William III dies when his horse stumbles on a molehill

March 08, 1700

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

March 08, 1594

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

March 08, 1574

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