October 26

October 26, 1932

Margaret The Unsinkable Molly Brown, daughter of Irish immigrants, dies in New York

October 26, 1911

Poet Sorley MacLean born on the island of Raasay.

October 26, 1845

Lady Caroline Nairne, songwriter and poet, died at Gask.

October 26, 1837

James Lawlor Kiernan, Union general in Americas Civil War, was born in Mount Bellew, County Galway

October 26, 1831

Birth of painter Nathaniel Hone in Dublin

October 26, 1791

Founding of the United Irishmen movement

October 26, 1771

John (Juan) MacKenna, who would rise to fame in South America, was born in Clogher, Co. Tyrone

October 26, 1760

George III crowned, beginning a 60 year reign, one of the longest in British history.

October 26, 1601

A Spanish army under Don Juan del Aguila, landed at Kinsale