October 13

October 13, 1923

Republican prisoners in Mountjoy prison begin mass hunger strike

October 13, 1881

Government crackdown on Irish Land League jails Parnell and other leaders

October 13, 1881

Charles Stewart Parnell and others are arrested for Land League activities

October 13, 1823

Sara Atkinson, a writer on religious and historical subjects is born

October 13, 1729

William Conolly resigns as Speaker

October 13, 1713

Birth of Allan Ramsay, painter and son of Allan Ramsay the poet.

October 13, 1644

Battle of Aberdeen, James Graham,, 1st Marquess of Montrose, sacked the city.

October 13, 1494

Poynings lands at Howth and summons a parliament to Drogheda. He then campaigns in the north