Poet Sorley MacLean born on the island of Raasay.
October 26, 1911
Lady Caroline Nairne, songwriter and poet, died at Gask.
October 26, 1845
James Lawlor Kiernan, Union general in Americas Civil War, was born in Mount Bellew, County Galway
October 26, 1837
Birth of painter Nathaniel Hone in Dublin
October 26, 1831
Founding of the United Irishmen movement
October 26, 1791
John (Juan) MacKenna, who would rise to fame in South America, was born in Clogher, Co. Tyrone
October 26, 1771
George III crowned, beginning a 60 year reign, one of the longest in British history.
October 26, 1760
A Spanish army under Don Juan del Aguila, landed at Kinsale
October 26, 1601