Birth of Niall Ó'Dónaill, Irish-Language Scholar and Lexicographer, in the Rosses, Co. Donegal

August 27, 1908

Birth in Dublin of Mervyn Wall, writer who wrote under the pseudonym of Eugene Welply

Poet, educator and eventual Easter Rising rebel Patrick Pearse opens St. Ednas school for boys (Scoil Eanna)