September 14

September 14, 1907

Edel Quinn, promoter of Legion of Mary in Africa, is born near Kanturk, Co. Cork

September 14, 1886

Birth of author Alice Milligan

September 14, 1852

Death of Arthur Wellesley, alias the Duke of Wellington

September 14, 1824

Sir Frederick Falkiner, impoverished former MP for Athy, Co. Dublin and Co. Carlow commits suicide in Naples

September 14, 1745

Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Edward Stuart, occupied Edinburgh.

September 14, 1647

Lord Inchiquin, a royalist turned Parliamentarian, sacks the Irish Catholic Confederate garrison at the Rock of Cashel

September 14, 1607

Flight of the Earls from Ireland to the Continent.

September 14, 1580

Birth of Robert Gordon of Straloch, Aberdeen, cartographer and rescuer of Thomas Ports original maps.

September 14, 1507

Edinburgh merchants granted exclusive privilege of running a printing press.

September 14, 1402

Scots led by, 4th Earl of Douglas defeated at the Battle of Homildon Hill by English army led by Percy Hotspur.