October 01

October 01, 1930

Richard Harris, born

October 01, 1930

Actor Richard Harris is born in Limerick

October 01, 1911

Statue of Charles Stewart Parnell is unveiled in Dublin

October 01, 1796

The Royal College of St. Patrick. a Catholic seminary, is opened in Maynooth, Co. Kildare

October 01, 1763

Contract to construct the North Bridge, Edinburgh, signed.

October 01, 1761

The Whiteboys, a violent agrarian protest movement, begins in Tipperary and spreads through Munster and West Leinster

October 01, 1600

Robert Grave, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, and his family drown in Dublin Bay on their way home to Wexford by sea

October 01, 1568

The Bannatyne Manuscript, published by George Bannatyne, an Edinburgh merchant.

October 01, 1263

Invasion of Scotland by Hakon King of Norway attacked on beaches by gathering Scottish forces beginning the Battle of the Largs.