Events for November 14

November 14, 1918

Seumas O'Kelly, playwright, novelist , short story writer , and journalist, dies

Seumas O’Kelly (1881 – 14 November 1918) was an Irish journalist, fiction writer, and playwright.

November 14, 1669

St. Oliver Plunkett becomes Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland

Oliver Plunkett (1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first new Irish saint in almost seven hundred years.

November 14, 1770

James Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile, Lake Tana in north-west Ethiopia.

James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794), a Scottish explorer, a British traveller and travel writer, is credited with rediscovering the source of the Blue Nile. In 1770, he reached Lake Tana in north-west Ethiopia, which he identified as the source of the Blue Nile. Lake Tana is the largest lake in Ethiopia and is located in the Amhara Region.

November 14, 1910

Poet Norman MacCaig born Edinburgh, Scotland

Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) was a Scottish poet born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was born at 15 East London Street, Edinburgh, to Robert McCaig (1880–1950?), a chemist from Dumfriesshire, and Joan née MacLeod (1879–1959), from Scalpay in the Outer Hebrides.