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Final performance at the Grassmarket, Edinburgh premises of the Traverse Theatre
The Traverse Theatre is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded as The Traverse Theatre Club in 1962 by John Calder, John Malcolm, Jim Haynes, Richard Demarco, Terry Lane, Andrew Muir, John Martin and Sheila Colvin.
Ireland declared a full republic and withdrawn from British Commonwealth.
The Republic of Ireland Act was an enactment of Oireachtas Éireann passed in 1948, which came into force on April 18, 1949 and which declared that the official description of Ireland was to be the Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) . It officially made Ireland a republic and marked its exit from the Commonwealth. The Republic of Ireland is the official description of the sovereign state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as Northern Ireland and is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The British Parliament recognizes the declaration but asserts sovereignty over the six northern counties. Ireland does not recognize the claim. Between 1922 and 1937, the 26 county Irish state was technically a British dominion known as the Irish Free State. In 1937, a new constitution was introduced which renamed the twenty-six county state Éire, or in the English language, Ireland .
Novelist Katherine Cecil Thurston, née Madden, is born in Cork
Katherine Cecil Thurston, born Kathleen Annie Josephine Madden (18 April 1874 – 5 September 1911), was an Irish novelist, best known for two political thrillers.
Remains of David Livingstone interred in Westminster Abbey.
David Livingstone FRGS FRS (/ˈlɪvɪŋstən/; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffatt missionary family.
Birth in Dublin of Robert Tressell, born Noonan, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Phillipe Noonan (17 April 1870 – 3 February 1911), born Robert Croker, and best known by the pen name Robert Tressell, was an Irish writer best known for his novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
Michael Roberts, Irish mathematician is born in Cork
Michael Roberts (18 April 1817 – 4 October 1882), was an Irish mathematician and academic of Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), who served as Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Mathematics there 1862-1879.
Robert Patterson, naturalist, is born in Belfast
Robert Patterson, FRS (1802–1872) was an Irish businessman and naturalist born in Belfast, Ireland.
Langrishes Catholic Relief Act allows Catholics to practice law, and Protestants and Catholics to intermarry
The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1791 relieving Roman Catholics of certain political, educational, and economic disabilities. It admitted Catholics to the practice of law, permitted the exercise of their religion, and the existence of their schools.
William Bunbury, MP for Co. Carlow, dies after being thrown from his horse
William Bunbury III of Lisnavagh (1744-1778)
Daniel Murray, Archbishop of Dublin, is born in Arklow, Co. Wicklow
Daniel Murray (1768, at Sheepwalk, near Arklow, Ireland – Dublin, 1852) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin.