November 03

November 03, 1991

Liz McColgan won her first marathon in a record time.

November 03, 1975

Queen Elizabeth officially opened an underwater pipeline to bring the first North Sea oil ashore.

November 03, 1932

Birth in Rooskey, Co. Roscommon of Albert Reynolds, politician and businessman, Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach from 1992-1994

November 03, 1923

Tomás Ó Fiaich, cardinal, historian and Catholic Primate of All Ireland, is born in Cullyhanna, Co. Armagh

November 03, 1917

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

November 03, 1903

Tomas O'Fiaich, Irish language author and Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh, is born

November 03, 1854

The Catholic University of Ireland is opened with J. H. Newman as its first rector

November 03, 1825

Potato Riots on Mann

November 03, 1815

John Mitchel, patriot and founder of the newspaper the United Irishman, born

November 03, 1788

Thomas Steele, landlord and supporter of Daniel OConnell is born in Derrymore, Co. Clare

November 03, 1717

Henry Luttrell, soldier and suspected betrayer of the Jacobites, is assassinated in Dublin

November 03, 1698

The Darien Expedition landed at Caledonia in Panama

November 03, 1692

The only session of the exclusively Protestant Irish parliament of William III and Mary ends on this date

November 03, 1380

Edmund Mortimer, 6th Earl of Ulster, holds a parliament at Dublin, which confirms the Statutes of Kilkenny