Ireland

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Birth of Forrest Reid in Belfast. He was a novelist, critic, and autobiographer. He became a distinguished book and print collector, eventually writing a definitive work on the book of illustrators of the 1860s

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MP for Tipperary, John Mitchel is re-elected on this date, dies eight days later

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Death of William Howard Glover, composer and music critic

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John Hughes Bennett, pioneer microscopist, died.

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Sir Hugh Lane, art collector and critic, is born in Ballybrack, Co. Cork

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National synod of Catholic bishops begins at Maynooth; they renew condemnation of Queens Colleges and condemn Trinity College

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John Buchan, Novelist and statesman, born in Perth.

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Teresa Kearney, better known as Mother Kevin, missionary and founder of Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Africa, is born in Knockenrahan, Co. Wicklow

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