← Thomas James Clarke, Irish revolutionary, is born of Irish parents
Edward Martyn, playwright, co-founder of Irish Literary Theatre, and Sinn Féin president, is born →- March 17, 1858
James Stephens (Irish: Séamus Mac Stiofáin;[2] 26 January 1825 – 29 March 1901) was an Irish Republican, and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin. This organisation, founded on 17 March 1858, was later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (I.R.B).