September 06

Birth of Bruce Arnold, journalist and author

September 6, 1936

Birth of Brinsley MacNamara, novelist, short story-writer and playwright

September 6, 1890

Birth in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork of Jeremiah ODonovan Rossa, one of the founders of the Fenian Brotherhood

September 6, 1831

Isaac Butt, barrister, politician and founder of the Home Rule movement, is born in Glenfin, Co. Donegal

September 6, 1813

Humbert marches to Drumkeeran. Lake is still tailing Humbert

September 6, 1798

First Jacobite rising begins as the standard of James III is raised at the Braes or MARCH - Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

September 6, 1715

The Earl of Mar unfurled the standard of the Old Pretender in Braemar at the start of the first Jacobite Uprising.

September 6, 1715