John Cobb killed when his boat crashed while attemptting a world water-speed record on Loch Ness
September 29, 1952
George Bernard Shaw refuses a peerage
September 29, 1930
The last active Fenian, John Devoy, dies
September 29, 1929
Birth of film star Greer Garson in Co. Down
September 29, 1908
Francis Llewellyn Harrison, musicologist, is born in Dublin
September 29, 1905
Fenian Thomas Clarke is released from Portland Prison
September 29, 1898
Birth in Kinvara, Co. Galway of Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the song, Galway Bay
September 29, 1854
Michael Mulhall, publisher and statistician, is born in Dublin
September 29, 1836
Charles Cornwallis Chesney, professor of military history, is born in Kilkeel, Co. Down
September 29, 1826
Tandy and other Irish political prisoners in Hamburg are handed over to British authorities
September 29, 1798
Birth in Dublin of Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy
September 29, 1778
Sir Henry Cavendish, politician and master of shorthand, who recorded parliamentary debates, born
September 29, 1732
Count Peter Lacy, soldier, governor of Livonia (Latvia) and field-marshal in the Russian army, is born in Killeedy, Co. Limerick
September 29, 1678
Charter granted to Sir William Alexander of Menstrie to colonize the Baronetcy of Nova Scotia.
September 29, 1621
Rory O'Donnell kisses the kings hand and is created Earl of Tyrconnell
September 29, 1603
Charles of Blois dies in the Battle of Auray
September 29, 1364
A proposal for the invasion of Ireland by Henry II is discussed
September 29, 1155