Sat 08 Oct 1949

Edith Oenone Somerville, Irish novelist, dies in Castletownshend, Co. Cork.In her late twenties, she meets her second cousin Violet Florence Martin who writes under the pseudonym Martin Ross. They become lifelong companions and literary partners, collabor

Tue 08 Oct 1872

John Cowper Powys, Welsh novelist, born.

Tue 08 Oct 1822

Birth in Dublin of Richard DAlton Williams. He is educated at Carlow Academy and studies medicine at Saint Vincents Hospital, Dublin. He becomes a member of the Young Ireland movement and contributes poetry to The Nation under the pseudonym Shamrock.

Sat 08 Oct 1774

Rev Henry Duncan, founder of the first savings bank, born in the Manse at Lochrutton.