october 21st

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History

The Queen officially opened the Burrell Collection in Glasgows Pollok Country Park. The museums collection had been donated to the city nearly, 40 years earlier by the shipping magnate Sir William Burrell.

October 21, 1983

History

Birth of poet Patrick Kavanagh in Inishkeen, Co. Monaghan

October 21, 1904

History

Douglas Hydes Casadh an tSúgán - The Twisting of the Rope - is presented at The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin and becomes the first staged Irish-language play

October 21, 1901

History

Irish National Land League founded in Dublin.

October 21, 1879

History

The Irish dead at the Battle of Trafalgar include Lieutenant William Ram, son of Abel Ram, MP for Co. Wexford, who is killed on board the Victory

October 21, 1805

History

Execution of Thomas Russell, United Irishman, in Downpatrick for “high treason”

October 21, 1803