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Tomás Mac Giolla, republican and socialist, and later, Workers Party leader, is born near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
Tomás Mac Giolla, republican and socialist, and later, Workers Party leader, is born near Nenagh, Co. Tipperary Tomás Mac Giolla born Thomas Gill; 25 January 1924 – 4 February 2010) was an Irish Workers’ Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1993 to 1994, Leader of the Workers’ Party from 1962 to 1988 and President of Sinn Féin from 1962 to 1970. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency from 1982 to 1992. …

Edmund Hogan, Jesuit and scholar, is born in Cork
Edmund Hogan, Jesuit and scholar, is born in Cork Edmund Ignatius Hogan S.J. (23 January 1831 – 26 November 1917) was an Irish Jesuit scholar. …

First edition of the Edinburgh-based Scotsman newspaper, published
First edition of the Edinburgh-based Scotsman newspaper, published The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its parent company, National World, also publishes the Edinburgh Evening News. It had an audited print circulation of 8,762 for July to December 2022. …

Daniel Maclise, painter, born in Co. Cork
Daniel Maclise, painter, born in Co. Cork Daniel Maclise RA (25 January 1806 – 25 April 1870) was an Irish history painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England. …

John Hobart, The Earl of Buckinghamshire, is sworn in as lord lieutenant
John Hobart, The Earl of Buckinghamshire, is sworn in as lord lieutenant There has been a Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire almost continuously since the position was created by King Henry VIII in 1535. The only exception to this was the English Civil War and English Interregnum between 1643 and 1660 when there was no king to support the Lieutenancy. …

Robert Burns - Scottish Poet - born.
Robert Burns - Scottish Poet - born. Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) was a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became an important source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and in a light Scots dialect which would have been accessible to a wider audience than simply Scottish people. At various times in his career, he wrote in English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is ……

Robert Boyle, physicist, chemist and alchemist, is born in Lismore, Co. Waterford
Robert Boyle, physicist, chemist and alchemist, is born in Lismore, Co. Waterford Robert Boyle FRS (/bɔɪl/; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle’s law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone ……

The 1st Earl of Desmond dies; Kildare is his replacement as justiciar
The 1st Earl of Desmond dies; Kildare is his replacement as justiciar Sir Thomas de Rokeby (died 1356 or 1357) was a soldier and senior Crown official in fourteenth-century England and Ireland, who served as Justiciar of Ireland. He was appointed to that office to restore law and order to Ireland, and had considerable early success in this task, but he was recalled to England after the military situation deteriorated. He was later re-appointed Justiciar, and returned to Ireland to take up office, but died soon afterwards. …

King Edward III accedes to British throne
King Edward III accedes to British throne Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II. Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe. His fifty-year reign was one of the longest in English history, and saw vital developments in legislation and government, in particular the evolution of the English Parliament, as well as the ……