Ireland

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Daniel O'Connell and the Young Irelanders party split

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William Smith O’Brien leads the Young Irelanders out of the Repeal Association

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John McLure, born

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Irish statesman, Charles Stewart Parnell, is born

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England repeals the Corn Laws. The Corn Law Act had been passed in 1815 as a measure to protect the interests of landowners who looked as if they were about to lose out when highly inflated prices for corn ceased with the ending of the Napoleonic Wars. Th

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The Great Southern & Western Railway line between Dublin and Carlow opens

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Michael Davitt, known universally as The Father of the Land League, is born in Straid, Co. Mayo

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Death of Michael Moran, aka Zozimus, balladeer and storyteller

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