Novelist, Maria Edgeworth, Dies in Mostrim, Co. Longford. She Is Laid to Rest in a Vault at Edgeworthstown Church. the Great Famine Which Decimates the People She Loves Mars Her Last Years. Even Though in Her Late Seventies, She Worked Strenuously for The
← Birth in Edinburgh of Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was the eldest son of 10 siblings born to Irish parents Charles Doyle and Mary Foley