September 6 - Brinsley MacNamara, novelist, short story-writer, and playwright, is born (1890).
September 7 - Penal Laws restrict the rights of Catholics to have an education, to bear arms, or to possess a horse worth mor than five pounds (1696).
September 8 - Poet, educator, and eventual Easter Risking rebel Patrick Pearse opens St. Enda's school for boys (Scoil Eanna), combining new European theories of education with a focus on the glory of the Gaelic past (1908).
September 9 - The arrival of the potato blight in Ireland is reported in the Dublin Evening Press (1845).
September 10 - The Irish Free State enter the League of Nations (1923).
September 11 - Proportional representation for local elections is abolished in Northern Ireland (1932).
September 12 - Louis Macneice, poet and classical scholar, is born (1907).
September 13 - Edward Poynings, best known for his introduction of "Poynings Law," which prevented the Irish Parliament from meeting without royal permission and approval of its agenda, is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland (1494).
September 14 - Lord Inchiquin, a royalist turned Parliamentarian, sacks the Irish Catholic Confederate garrison at the Rock of Cashel (1647).
September 15 - Anne Letitia Dickson is elected leader of the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Ireland (1976).
September 16 - John McCormack, concert and opera singer and star of the movie Song O' My Heart, dies (1945).
September 17 - Frank O'Connor, a short story-writer and author of poetic translations from Irish, is born (1903).
September 18 - Standish O'Grady, novelist, is born (1846).
September 19 - Parnell delivers his famous speech at Ennis, in which he introduces the term for nonviolent intimidation - boycotting (1880).
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