November 20

November 20, 1925

Eoin MacNeill, resigns from the Boundary Commission

November 20, 1917

The 16th Irish Division of the British army assaults an area of the German lines known as Tunnel Trench

November 20, 1908

Alistair Cooke, journalist, is born

November 20, 1889

Donn Byrne, novelist and short-story writer, is born

November 20, 1840

John Russell Young, journalist in American Civil War, from Co. Tyrone, born

November 20, 1830

Patrick Henry Jones, Union General from Co. Meath, born

November 20, 1800

Richard Rothwell, painter, is born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath

November 20, 1762

Francis Andrews is appointed first professor of history at the University of Dublin