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Edward Daly, Michael OHanrahan, William Pearse & Joseph Mary Plunkett are executed by firing squad in Kilmainham jail

Charles Williams, war correspondent, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry

The Ancient Order of Hibernians in America is founded in New York City

Second and third Catholic Relief Acts (4 May, 27 July) allow Catholics to own land outside parliamentary boroughs, to be teachers, and to act as guardians

Acts establish the Bank of Ireland, and validates marriages by Presbyterian ministers

Art Ó Laoghaire, is killed by soldiers near Millstreet, Co. Cork

Thomas Burton (former MP for Ennis) met with the melancholy accident of being overturned in his chaise, by which he was killed on the spot

Joseph Deane, Justice of Assize for Munster and MP for Co. Dublin, dies