October 14

October 14, 1969

The, 50 pence decimal coin was first issued, replacing the ten shilling note.

October 14, 1939

German submarine sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney, with the loss of, 810 lives.

October 14, 1932

Strikes, marches and protests are held in Belfast against low unemployment payments, temporarily uniting Catholic and Protestant unemployed

October 14, 1920

Tipperary IRA man, Sean Treacy, is killed in a gun battle in Talbot Street, Dublin

October 14, 1882

Eamon de Valera, Fianna Fáil leader, Taoiseach and president of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, NY

October 14, 1881

Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, nearly, 20 boats and, 129 men (1 in, 3 of the towns male population) lost their lives in a storm.

October 14, 1880

Nationalist and Gaelic League activist, Mary Ellen Spring-Rice is born

October 14, 1842

First issue of The Nation published

October 14, 1814

Birth of author and patriot, Thomas Osborne Davis in Mallow, Co. Cork

October 14, 1791

Wolfe Tone visits Belfast for the first time

October 14, 1788

First steamboat tested on Dalswinton Loch by Patrick Miller and William Symington.

October 14, 1783

Edmond Sexton Pery is unanimously re-elected as Speaker of the Irish parliament

October 14, 1767

George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

October 14, 1763

Birth of United Irish leader, Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Carton House in Co. Kildare

October 14, 1702

Irish Brigade of France fights in the battle of Friedlingen

October 14, 1693

The Earl of Tyrone dies

October 14, 1690

After taking Cork on 28 September, Marlbourough takes Kinsale for the Williamites, who now control Munster

October 14, 1633

Birth at St James Palace, London of King James VII, second son of King Charles I and brother of King Charles II.

October 14, 1322

Victory of Robert the Bruce of Scotland in Yorkshire.

October 14, 1318

Edward Bruce, brother of Robert the Bruce, killed in a battle near Dundalk, Ireland.

October 14, 1285

Second marriage of King Alexander III (to Yolanda de Dreux).