october 8th

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History

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

October 08, 1949

History

John Cowper Powys, Welsh novelist, born.

October 08, 1872

History

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.

October 08, 1822

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

October 08, 1774