25th

Total results: 9

Tomás Mac Giolla, republican and socialist, and later, Workers Party leader, is born near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary

Edmund Hogan, Jesuit and scholar, is born in Cork

First edition of the Edinburgh-based Scotsman newspaper, published

Daniel Maclise, painter, born in Co. Cork

John Hobart, The Earl of Buckinghamshire, is sworn in as lord lieutenant

Robert Burns - Scottish Poet - born.

Robert Boyle, physicist, chemist and alchemist, is born in Lismore, Co. Waterford

The 1st Earl of Desmond dies; Kildare is his replacement as justiciar