November 24

November 24, 1996

Sorley MacLean, poet, died

November 24, 1942

Comedian and actor Billy Connolly born

November 24, 1922

Irish republican Erskine Childers is executed by the Free State government

November 24, 1865

James Stephens, Fenian, escapes from Richmond prison, Dublin

November 24, 1820

Arthur French, MP for Co. Roscommon, dies of excessive fox-hunting

November 24, 1807

Henry Blosse Lynch, soldier and explorer, is born in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo

November 24, 1713

Lawrence Sterne, clergyman, humorist, and author, is born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

November 24, 1572

John Knox, leading reformer of Church of Scotland, died

November 24, 1542

Rout of Solway Moss

November 24, 1331

David II (aged, 7) crowned at Scone.

November 24, 1265

Magnus, the last King of the Isle of Man died