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February 3rd

Mon 03 Feb 1919

Harry Boland and Michael Collins engineer Eamon de Valeras escape from Lincoln Jail in England

Fri 03 Feb 1911

Robert Noonan, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, dies

Mon 03 Feb 1896

Lady Jane Wilde (Spiranza), poet, nationalist and the mother of Oscar, dies in London

Thu 03 Feb 1881

Irish Land League organizer Michael Davitt is arrested again in Dublin

Tue 03 Feb 1801

Prime Minister William Pitt resigns over royal veto on Catholic emancipation

Mon 03 Feb 1744

Lord Netterville, indicted for the murder of Michael Walsh, is acquitted by his Parlimentary Peers