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calendar 1971

Sole remaining gas street lamp in Glasgow was lit for the last time, bringing to an end the age of the leeries, the lamplighters which started in, 1718 with oil lamps.

September 01, 1971

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calendar 1870

Isaac Butt founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule is now the objective of constitutional nationalists

September 01, 1870

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calendar 1864

Roger Casement, British consular official and Irish nationalist, is born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin

September 01, 1864

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calendar 1856

Birth of Irish Nationalist Party leader John Redmond in Ballytrent, Co. Wexford

September 01, 1856

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calendar 1830

The Wild Colonial Boy is shot dead in a gun battle with police at Cambelltown, Sydney. Contrary to the popular song, The Wild Colonial Boy was John Donohue, transported from Ireland in 1824

September 01, 1830

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calendar 1814

Birth of James OFlanagan, author, in Fermoy, Co. Cork

September 01, 1814

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calendar 1789

Marguerite Gardiner, nee Power; Countess of Blessington; author, is born near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

September 01, 1789

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calendar 1737

Launch of the Belfast Newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world

September 01, 1737

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calendar 1729

Death of dramatist, essayist and publisher Sir Richard Steele, the Dubliner who founded The Tatler and The Spectator

September 01, 1729

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calendar 1719

Marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stewart (the Old Pretender) and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska. The Polish Princess had been kidnapped on her way to the original wedding, escaped and had married James by proxy earlier in, 1719.

September 01, 1719

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calendar 1644

Battle of Tippermuir, in which Marquis of Montrose defeated Covenanters .

September 01, 1644

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calendar 1643

Battle of Tippermuir, Highland army under Montrose defeats larger army of convenanters (despite their battle cry of- Jesus and No Quarter)

September 01, 1643