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Cecil Day-Lewis, poet, novelist, critic, and Irelands poet laureate from 1968 to 1972, is born in Ballintogher, Co. Sligo

The first ever Irish musical comedy, The Irish Girl, written by Percy French and William Collisson, is staged at the Queen’s Theatre, Dublin

The Royal University of Ireland is founded by charter

Robert Lochore, Scots poet, died

Mary King Ward, Irish naturalist and astronomer is born

James Bruce, explorer and author of Travels to Discover the Sources of the Nile died.

Lord Barry of Santry is tried by his peers in the parliament house for the murder of his former servant Laughlin Murphy in August 1738

Act for encouraging the linen manufacture of Ireland - Irish linen gains duty-free access to the British market on this date