Ireland

countries: Ireland

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The SS Royal Adelaide sinks in a storm with the loss of 200 lives

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Charters are granted to colleges in Belfast (now Queen’s University), Cork (now UCC) and Galway (now UCG), under the Universities (Ireland) Act

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Paul Cullen is consecrated Catholic archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland

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First tenant protection society established at Callan, Co. Kilkenny.

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James Clarence Mangan, poet, dies

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Novelist, Maria Edgeworth, dies in Mostrim, Co. Longford. She is laid to rest in a vault at Edgeworthstown Church. The Great Famine which decimates the people she loves mars her last years. Even though in her late seventies, she worked strenuously for the

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Death of William McNab, curator of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. He was responsible for greening Scotland in the, 19th century. He moved, 4,000 plant species, including trees from a site on Leith Walk, to the present garden at Inverleith.

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Birth in Clonakilty of William Hartnett, master of still life painting

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Young Ireland rising, Battle of the Widow MacCormacks cabbage garden

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