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September 18
Today in Celtic history
Theatre Royal, Glasgow, became the first theatre in Britain to be lit by gas.
James Standish OGrady, novelist, is born in Castletownbere, Co. Cork
Anne Devlin, friend and comrade of Robert Emmett, dies in Dublin
Kelly and Timothy Deasy are rescued in a Fenian attack on a police van in Manchester during which a police sergeant is shot dead
Kathleen Behan, née Kearney, Mother of All the Behans and folk singer is born in Dublin
Home Rule Act on Statute Book but is suspended for the duration of World War
Stephen Hayes, a former IRA chief of staff, is kidnapped on 30 June
Birth of Lord Roger of Earlsferry, Lord Justice General.
47 miners were killed at Auchengeich Colliery, Lanarkshire when the bogies carrying them to work ran into smoke, 1,000 feet below ground.
Death of Sean O’Casey in England.
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Saturday
September 19
Sunday
September 20
Monday
September 21
September 21, 1170
MacMurrough and the Normans march on the Norse kingdom of Dublin
September 21, 1327
King Edward II of England died , succeeded by Edward III.
Tuesday
September 22
September 22, 1485
Duke Fransez II sets up a Breton national assembly.
September 22, 1601
Battle of Kinsale
Wednesday
September 23
September 23, 704
Death of St Adamnan, biographer of St Columba.
September 23, 1586
Battle of Ardnaree, Sir Richard Bingham surprises a force of redshanks
Thursday
September 24
September 24, 1332
Edward Balliol, son of John Balliol, crowned at Scone.
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