March 12

March 12, 1974

Billy Fox, Prostestant Irish Nationalist senator from Monaghan, assassinated

March 12, 1875

MP for Tipperary, John Mitchel is re-elected on this date, dies eight days later

March 12, 1832

Capt. Charles Boycott, despised English estate manager in Ireland, born

March 12, 1798

Leinster Directory of United Irishmen leaders is arrested

March 12, 1708

French Jacobite invasion of Scotland aborts landing at Firth of Forth

March 12, 1689

James II lands at Kinsale and proceeds to Dublin

March 12, 1685

George Berkeley, Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop, born

March 12, 1295

Richard de Burgh is released by the council in parliament at Kilkenny