Sole remaining gas street lamp in glasgow was lit for the last time, bringing to an end the age of the leeries, the lamplighters which started in, 1718 with oil lamps.
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1870
Isaac Butt founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule is now the objective of constitutional nationalists
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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
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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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Battle of Tippermuir, in which Marquis of Montrose defeated Covenanters .
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