Ireland

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Viscount Mountmorres is killed near Clonbur, Co. Galway

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Mayo agent, Captain Charles Boycott, was sent to a moral Coventry. He described his plight in a letter to The Times ...people collect in crowds upon my farm and order off all my workmen. The shopkeepers have been warned to stop all supplies to my hous

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Parnell delivers his famous speech at Ennis in which he introduces the term for non-violent protest - boycotting. Parnell asked his audience, What are you to do with a tenant who bids for a farm from which another has been evicted? Several voices replie

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Death of Ellen Kean, one of the greatest actresses of her time

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Five people drown in Derrybeg, Co. Donegal when a chapel is flooded during Mass

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Birth of William Thomas Cosgrave , Irish statesman and father of Liam Cosgrave*. A member of Sinn Féin, he fought in the Easter Rebellion and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Freed a year later, he was elected to the British Parliament in 1918 but pro

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Charles Stewart Parnell is elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party

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Birth in Dublin of William Thomas Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State

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The Irish Rugby Football Union is founded in Dublin

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