August 08

Learn about The History of the Celtic People

Thomas McElwee, Irish polictical prisoner, dies on hunger strike in Maze prison, Northern Ireland. -

Former World flyweight boxing champion Benny Lynch died. -

The Civic Guard is renamed the Garda Siochana -

James Gandon moves from London to Dublin; the first stone of his Customs House is laid on this date -

Birth of Francis Hutcheson, Presbyterian philosopher, in Co. Down -

The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English -

King James IV married Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England. -

King Edward I removed to England the Stone of Destiny on which generations of Scottish kings had been crowned. -