Birth of Writer Brian ONolan Aka Myles Na GCopaleen and Perhaps Better Known as Flann OBrien

October 11, 1911

Birth of Brian O’Nolan, aka Flann O’Brien and Myles na gCopaleen in Strabane, Co. Tyrone

Birth in Portrush of Fred Daly, the only Irishman to win a golf major - the British Open in 1947