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Richard Harris, born

Actor Richard Harris is born in Limerick

Statue of Charles Stewart Parnell is unveiled in Dublin

The Royal College of St. Patrick. a Catholic seminary, is opened in Maynooth, Co. Kildare

Contract to construct the North Bridge, Edinburgh, signed.

In the climate of sectarian tension created partly by the Mathew-Maude controversy, the Whiteboys, a violent agrarian protest movement, begins in Tipperary and spreads through Munster and West Leinster

Robert Grave, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, and his family drown in Dublin Bay on their way home to Wexford by sea

The Bannatyne Manuscript, the most extensive collection of early Scottish poetry in existence, was published by George Bannatyne, an Edinburgh merchant.