September 29

September 29, 1996

Stone of Destiny, which Scottish kings had been crowned, returned to Scotland

September 29, 1952

John Cobb killed when his boat crashed while attemptting a world water-speed record on Loch Ness

September 29, 1930

George Bernard Shaw refuses a peerage

September 29, 1929

The last active Fenian, John Devoy, dies

September 29, 1908

Birth of film star Greer Garson in Co. Down

September 29, 1905

Francis Llewellyn Harrison, musicologist, is born in Dublin

September 29, 1898

Fenian Thomas Clarke is released from Portland Prison

September 29, 1854

Birth in Kinvara, Co. Galway of Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the song, Galway Bay

September 29, 1836

Michael Mulhall, publisher and statistician, is born in Dublin

September 29, 1826

Charles Cornwallis Chesney, professor of military history, is born in Kilkeel, Co. Down

September 29, 1798

Tandy and other Irish political prisoners in Hamburg are handed over to British authorities

September 29, 1778

Birth in Dublin of Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy

September 29, 1732

Sir Henry Cavendish, politician and master of shorthand, who recorded parliamentary debates, born

September 29, 1678

Count Peter Lacy, soldier, governor of Livonia (Latvia) and field-marshal in the Russian army, is born in Killeedy, Co. Limerick

September 29, 1621

Charter granted to Sir William Alexander of Menstrie to colonize the Baronetcy of Nova Scotia.

September 29, 1603

Rory O'Donnell kisses the kings hand and is created Earl of Tyrconnell

September 29, 1364

Charles of Blois dies in the Battle of Auray

September 29, 1155

A proposal for the invasion of Ireland by Henry II is discussed