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John Sheahan, fiddle player with the Dubliners, is born
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Sir Isaac Butt invents the term Home Rule
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Birth of Henry Dixon, botanist
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Máire Ni Aodáin (Mary Hayden), Irish historian, is born
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Standish Hayes O'Grady, scholar, is born in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick
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Anna Maria O'Dell, gives birth to a stillborn child in the Marshalsea debtors prison
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Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of the United Irishmen, is betrayed by Francis Magan; is arrested and is shot while being apprehended
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James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson- died.
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Death in Auchinleck of James Boswell, biographer of Dr Johnston.
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John Forster is unanimously elected Speaker of the House of Commons, replacing Alan Brodrick
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An Act by the British Parliament forbids the export of Irish wool
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