September 01

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Sole remaining gas street lamp in Glasgow was lit for the last time

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

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

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

Dublin Zoo opens

The Wild Colonial Boy is shot dead in a gun battle with police at Cambelltown, Sydney

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

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

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

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

Marriage of Prince James Francis Edward Stewart and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska

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

Battle of Tippermuir

Death of St Giles, patron saint of Edinburgh (and Elgin).

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