April 28

The Daíl introduces a bill awarding pensions to the Connaught Rangers who mutinied in India in 1920

Nicky Rackard, Wexford hurler, is born in Killane, Co. Wexford

William Soutar, poet, born in Perth

Teresa Kearney, better known as Mother Kevin, is born in Knockenrahan, Co. Wicklow

Teresa Kearney, later known as Mother Kevin, was born in Knockenrahan, Co. Wicklow. A devoted Catholic missionary, she would go on to found the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Africa, a congregation committed to healthcare, education, and pastoral work across East Africa.

William Ellison, clergyman and the sixth director of the Armagh Observatory, is born

Rev. William Jackson, agent of French revolutionary government, is arrested in Dublin

Henry Dundas, powerful politician, known as Uncrowned King of Scotland, born.

Sir Wentworth Harman, MP for Lanesborough, coming in a dark night from Chapel-Izod, his coach overturning, tumbled down a precipice, and he dies

Rhys ap Gruffydd - King of South Wales, died.

Rhys ap Gruffydd: (1132–28 April 1197) was the ruler of the kingdom of Deheubarth (South Wales) from 1155 until his death. Rhys was one of the more successful and powerful Welsh princes, but even he was forced to acknowledge English supremacy, and did so by accepting the title of Lord rather than Prince or King, becoming The Lord Rhys (in Welsh, Yr Arglwydd: Rhys).