Ireland

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Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth) Welsh occultist born

ireland

Birth of Brinsley MacNamara, novelist, short story-writer and playwright

ireland

Birth of Richard Chenevix Trench, prelate, philologist and poet; the New English Dictionary, later the Oxford English Dictionary, was begun at his suggestion, in Dublin

ireland

James Naysmith, engineer and inventor of steam hammer, died

ireland

Six days of Irish Parliamentary Party debates begin, only to end in a split, with the majority opposing Parnell

ireland

Patrick McGilligan, pro-Treaty nationalist and politician, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry

ireland

Donn Byrne, novelist and short-story writer, is born

ireland

Richard Piggott is exposed as forger of Times Phoenix Park letters

ireland