November 22

November 22, 2001

Jack McConnell elected First Minister of Scotland, succeeding Henry McLeish who had resigned

November 22, 1942

Actor Tom Conti born

November 22, 1919

Birth of Máire Drumm, Irish Republican, in Newry, Co. Armagh

November 22, 1912

Donagh MacDonagh, son of Thomas MacDonagh, born in Dublin

November 22, 1869

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian, contests and wins a Tipperary by-election in abstentia

November 22, 1830

Justin McCarthy, politician, novelist and historian, is born in Cork

November 23, 1810

Margaret Aylward, founder of the Sisters of the Holy Faith, born in Waterford

November 22, 1773

Lord John Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, is born in Dublin

November 22, 845

Victory of Nomenoe over the Franks at Ballon, Brittany