Ireland

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On a day that will long be remembered as Black Thursday, four members of the Molly Maguires, Alexander Campbell, John Donohue, Michael Doyle and Edward Kelly, shackled with chains, walk to the gallows specially constructed to accommodate four people; thei

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Hanna Sheehy Skeffington is born in Co. Limerick. A committed suffragette, she is one of the founding members of the Irish Womens Franchise League; sexual equality remains a primary concern throughout her despite a slight shift in focus after the summary

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Opening of the original Mitchell Library, Glasgow, now the largest public reference library in Europe.

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Ralph Henry Byrne, architect, is born in Dublin

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Y.V. Perrot, Breton patriot, writer and martyr, born.

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Cahir Healy, born in Mountcharles, Co. Donegal

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George Fitzmaurice, Irish Renaissance playwright, is born

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The Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language is formed in Dublin

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