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Total results: 13

Final performance at the Grassmarket, Edinburgh premises of the Traverse Theatre

Ireland declared a full republic and withdrawn from British Commonwealth.

Novelist Katherine Cecil Thurston, née Madden, is born in Cork

Remains of David Livingstone interred in Westminster Abbey.

Birth in Dublin of Robert Tressell, born Noonan, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Michael Roberts, Irish mathematician is born in Cork

Robert Patterson, naturalist, is born in Belfast

Langrishes Catholic Relief Act allows Catholics to practice law, and Protestants and Catholics to intermarry