April 10

Learn about The History of the Celtic People

Sandy Lyle becomes the first Scottish (and British) golfer to win the US Masters tournament. -

British Parliament proposes conscription in Ireland -

Yann Ber Kalloch, a great Breton poet dies in the First World War -

George William Russell (pseudonym A. E. Russell); poet, painter, writer, economist and mystic, is born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh -

Campobello New Brunswick Irish-American Fenians attack Campobello Island from Eastport, Maine -

Oliver Sheppard, sculptor, is born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone -

Fr. Theobald Mathew, with the support of William Martin, a quaker, founds the total abstinence movement in Cork -

Birth of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist, in Monaghan -

Birth of William Brownlow, parliamentarian and Volunteer -

A charter of Charles II replaces Cromwells charter of Londonderry -

Cromwells New Model Army is victorious at Macroom, Co. Cork -

King James V was born at Linlithgow Palace, son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor -

Following the death of Ralph de Ufford, Roger Darcy is appointed justiciar -