Events for November 01

January 11, 2000

Samhain - Celtic New Year

Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year, for the Celts divided the year into two seasons: the light and the dark, at Beltane on May 1st and Samhain on November 1st.

November 1, 1857

John Joly, geologist and physicist, is born in Co. Offaly

November 1, 1798

Sir Benjamin Guinness, owner of the Guinness brewery from 1855, is born in Dublin

November 1, 1920

The enrolment of the Ulster Special Constabulary begins