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Donal Lunny, founder of Planxty, Bothy Band, and Moving Hearts, born
Donal Lunny, founder of Planxty, Bothy Band, and Moving Hearts, born Dónal Lunny (born 10 March 1947) is an Irish folk musician and producer. He plays guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán. As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD, and Usher’s Island, he has been at the forefront of the renaissance of Irish traditional music for over five decades. …

IRA prisoners in the Free State are released
IRA prisoners in the Free State are released Irish jails open for 20 Republicans; De Valera, in First Act as Head of Cabinet Orders Release of Political Offenders. CROWD AT PRISON GATES Cheering Thousands Take George Gilmore and Others to Waiting Automobiles on Their Shoulders. …

Ireland collects its first ever Triple Crown, defeating Wales in Belfast
Ireland collects its first ever Triple Crown, defeating Wales in Belfast The first use cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from Whitaker’s Almanack, 1900 (referring to the 1899 tournament): …

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, writer is born in Dingle, Co. Kerry
Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, writer is born in Dingle, Co. Kerry Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha ( 10 March 1883 – 19 November 1964) and his brother Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha were Irish language writers, teachers and storytellers, from County Kerry, Ireland. Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha wrote under the Gaelic pen-name An Seabhac (pronounced [ənˠ ˈʃəuk]; …

Sir Samuel Ferguson, Celtic scholar, born
Sir Samuel Ferguson, Celtic scholar, born Sir Samuel Ferguson (10 March 1810 – 9 August 1886) was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. He was an acclaimed 19th-century Irish poet, and his interest in Irish mythology and early Irish history can be seen as a forerunner of William Butler Yeats and the other poets of the Irish Literary Revival. …

John Playfair, clergyman, geologist, mathematician, born.
John Playfair, clergyman, geologist, mathematician, born. John Playfair FRSE, FRS (10[citation needed] March 1748 – 20 July 1819) was a Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), which summarised the work of James Hutton. It was through this book that Hutton’s principle of uniformitarianism, later taken up by Charles Lyell, first reached a wide audience. Playfair’s textbook Elements of Geometry made a brief expression of Euclid’s parallel ……

St. John Ogilvie, a Jesuit priest, was hanged for refusing to renounce the supremacy of the Pope
St. John Ogilvie, a Jesuit priest, was hanged for refusing to renounce the supremacy of the Pope John Ogilvie, SJ (1580 – 10 March 1615) was a Scottish Jesuit priest. For his work in service to a persecuted Catholic community in 17th century Scotland, and in being hanged for his faith, he became the only post-Reformation Scottish saint. …

John De La Pole, the Duke of Suffolk, is appointed lieutenant of Ireland
John De La Pole, the Duke of Suffolk, is appointed lieutenant of Ireland John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, KG (27 September 1442 – 14–21 May 1492), was a major magnate in 15th-century England. He was the son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Alice Chaucer, the daughter of Thomas Chaucer (thus making John the great-grandson of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer). His youth was blighted, in 1450, by the political fall and subsequent murder of his father, who had been a favourite of king Henry VI but was increasingly distrusted by the rest of the nobility. Although the first duke of Suffolk had made himself rich through trade and – particularly – royal ……

St Kessog Day, the patron saint of Scotland
St Kessog Day, the patron saint of Scotland On March 10 560, St Kessog, the Irish missionary in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire, was killed. Kessog was Scotland’s patron saint before Andrew, and his name was used as a battle cry by the Scots. St Kessog was a disciple of Columba of Iona who preached and taught in the sixth century AD. …