Ireland

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Charles Stewart Parnell turns the first sod for the West Clare Railway

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The gunboat HMS Wasp is wrecked off Tory Island, Co. Donegal, with the loss of 52 lives; there are eight survivors

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Louise Gavan Duffy, born

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Birth in Athlone of John McCormack, tenor and papal count

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Mary Colum in Collooney, Co. Sligo, born

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Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd are married

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William Conor, painter, born in Belfast

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Birth of William Casey, dramatist and Times editor

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