Ireland

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Sir Robert McCarrison, medical scientist, is born in Portadown, Co. Armagh

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Sinéad de Valera, née Flanagan; teacher and writer, is born in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin

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First Tay rail bridge opens. It was to collapse, 18 months later in the Tay Bridge Disaster.

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Thomas MacDonagh, patriot, poet, critic and scholar, is born in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary

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A firedamp explosion at Blantyre Colliery killed, 207 miners.

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Charles Stewart Parnell becomes president of Home Rule Confederation

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Minority of Home Rulers begin obstruction tactics in Commons

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On a day that will long be remembered as Black Thursday, four members of the Molly Maguires, Alexander Campbell, John Donohue, Michael Doyle and Edward Kelly, shackled with chains, walk to the gallows specially constructed to accommodate four people; thei

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