Launch of the belfast newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in ireland or britain, and one of the oldest in the world
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1870
Isaac Butt founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule is now the objective of constitutional nationalists
September 01, 1870
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1864
Roger Casement, British consular official and Irish nationalist, is born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin
September 01, 1864
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1856
Birth of Irish Nationalist Party leader John Redmond in Ballytrent, Co. Wexford
September 01, 1856
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1789
Marguerite Gardiner, nee Power; Countess of Blessington; author, is born near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
September 01, 1789
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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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1644
Battle of Tippermuir, in which Marquis of Montrose defeated Covenanters .
September 01, 1644
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