Ireland

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Death of William Smith O’Brien, leading member of the literary-political Young Ireland movement

ireland

Birth in Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford of Sir Henry Wilson, soldier; chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1918 to 1922; establishes British Intelligence Cairo Gang in Dublin

ireland

William Ellison, clergyman and the sixth director of the Armagh Observatory, is born

ireland

Neilí Ni Bhriain, Irish Gaelic League activist, is born

ireland

Charlotte Milligan Fox, collector of folk music, is born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone

ireland

Matilda Knowles, Irish botanist and lichenologist, born

ireland

The National Gallery of Ireland, opens

ireland

Roger Casement, British consular official and Irish nationalist, is born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin

ireland