November 03

Liz McColgan won her first marathon in a record time.

November 3, 1991

Queen Elizabeth officially opened an underwater pipeline to bring the first North Sea oil ashore.

November 3, 1975

Birth in Rooskey, Co. Roscommon of Albert Reynolds, politician and businessman, Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach from 1992-1994

November 3, 1932

Tomás Ó Fiaich, cardinal, historian and Catholic Primate of All Ireland, is born in Cullyhanna, Co. Armagh

November 3, 1923

Birth of Conor Cruise OBrien, diplomat, political commentator and writer

November 3, 1917

Tomas O'Fiaich, Irish language author and Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh, is born

November 3, 1903

The Catholic University of Ireland is opened with J. H. Newman as its first rector

November 3, 1854

Potato Riots on Mann

November 3, 1825

John Mitchel, patriot and founder of the newspaper the United Irishman, born

November 3, 1815

Thomas Steele, landlord and supporter of Daniel OConnell is born in Derrymore, Co. Clare

November 3, 1788

Henry Luttrell, soldier and suspected betrayer of the Jacobites, is assassinated in Dublin

November 3, 1717

The Darien Expedition landed at Caledonia in Panama

November 3, 1698

The only session of the exclusively Protestant Irish parliament of William III and Mary ends on this date

November 3, 1692

Edmund Mortimer, 6th Earl of Ulster, holds a parliament at Dublin, which confirms the Statutes of Kilkenny

November 3, 1380