October 05

October 05, 1938

Frank Patterson, tenor, is born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

October 05, 1924

John Joe Barry, athlete who is known as the Ballincurry Hare, is born

October 05, 1923

Birth of Philip Berrigan - militant priest, Virginia, Minn

October 05, 1911

Birth of Brian O’Nolan, aka Flann O’Brien and Myles na gCopaleen in Strabane, Co. Tyrone

October 05, 1878

New York Gaelic Society is formed

October 05, 1873

Leslie Montgomery, comic writer under the pseudonym Lynn C. Doyle, is born in in Downpatrick, Co. Down

October 05, 1785

Balloon flight by Italian aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi from Heriots School, Edinburgh to Ceres in Fife.

October 05, 1731

Parliament meets at the new parliament house in College Green for the first time

Battle of the Largs