Ireland

countries: Ireland

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The first Sherlock Holmes story by Edinburgh born author Arthur Conan Doyle was published in the Strand magazine.

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Birth of John Aloysius Costello, Ireland’s third Taoiseach

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Death of Charles Stewart Parnell, champion of tenants rights and co-founder of the Land League; often called the Uncrowned King of Ireland

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The Land Purchase Act further facilitates tenants purchase of acreage from former landlords and establishes a board to purchase and redistribute land at a local level in the west

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

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Edward Ned Daly, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, is born in Limerick

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A proposal for the penalty kick is accepted by the Football Association. It is the brainchild of Armaghs William McCrum and is championed by his colleague in the Irish Association, Jack Reid

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Michael Collins is born in Clonakilty, Co. Cork

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Death of journalist and republican John Boyle O’Reilly

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