October 24

October 232, 1923

Terence MacSwiney mayor of Cork died in an English prison on hunger strike.

October 24, 1880

Fanny Parnell launches the Ladies Land League in New York

October 24, 1854

Birth of Sir Horace Plunkett, agricultural reformer and politician

October 24, 1796

Artist David Roberts born in Edinburgh.

October 24, 1789

Work begins on the construction of the Royal Canal

October 24, 1642

Irish Confederate rebels establish government at Kilkenny