19th

Total results: 11

John Sheahan, fiddle player with the Dubliners, is born

Sir Isaac Butt invents the term Home Rule

Birth of Henry Dixon, botanist

Máire Ni Aodáin (Mary Hayden), Irish historian, is born

Standish Hayes O'Grady, scholar, is born in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick

Anna Maria O'dell, the 2nd wife of William O'dell gives birth to a stillborn child in the Marshalsea debtors prison, where she had accompanied her husband

Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of the United Irishmen, is betrayed by Francis Magan; is arrested and is shot while being apprehended

James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson- died.