1593
Marischal College, second University in Aberdeen, founded.
Ireland
Marischal College is a large granite building on Broad Street in the centre of Aberdeen in north-east Scotland, and since 2011 has acted as the headquarters of Aberdeen City …
Celtic history archive
April 02
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1902
Premiere of Yeats 'Cathleen ni Houlihan' starring Maud Gonne
Ireland
Cathleen ni Houlihan is a one-act play written by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1902. It was first performed on 2 April of that year and first published in the October …
1914
Cumann na mBan, Irish womens republican movement founded
Ireland
Cumann na mBan, (the ‘League of Women’), was an Irish republican women’s paramilitary organisation formed on 2 April 1914 as an auxilliary of the Irish Volunteers (IV). …
1970
Several days of rioting following Easter rising commemorations in Ireland end on this date
Ireland
Following an Orange Order march, intense riots erupted on the Springfield Road in Belfast. Violence lasted for three days, and the British Army used CS gas for the first time in …