Ireland

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Choisdeailbh, Irish language folk-song collector is born

ireland

Erskine Childers, novelist, member of the Royal Navy, and later an Irish nationalist, is born in London. He is famous for the classic spy yarn The Riddle Of The Sands. For more on his life, please click The Wild Geese

ireland

Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec

ireland

Birth of Eva Gore-Booth, poet, trade unionist and feminist, on the Lissadell Estate in Co. Sligo

ireland

Jack White, journalist and author, is born in Cork

ireland

Sir Isaac Butt invents the term Home Rule

ireland

David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer, died.

ireland

Jem Mace defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn

ireland