This Day the 26th of April in Irish History.
In the year: 1895
The trial of Oscar Wilde for homosexuality, then a crime, begins at the Old Bailey
In the year: 1998
Catriona McKiernan becomes the first Irish woman to win the London Marathon
In the year: 1916
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, writer, suffragist, pacifist and patriot, is apprehended while trying to stop Easter Rising looting and is later executed by the British without a trial
In the year: 2003
The Government says a deal securing the future of the North’s power-sharing executive is now close following the latest statement from Sinn Féin. Irish and British governments hail a speech by the Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, as a significant advance
In the year: 1756
John Ponsonby is unanimously elected Speaker of the Irish parliament
