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Sole remaining gas street lamp in Glasgow was lit for the last time, bringing to an end the age of the leeries, the lamplighters which started in, 1718 with oil lamps.
Sole remaining gas street lamp in Glasgow was lit for the last time, bringing to an end the age of the leeries, the lamplighters which started in, 1718 with oil lamps. …

Isaac Butt founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule is now the objective of constitutional nationalists
Isaac Butt founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule is now the objective of constitutional nationalists …

Roger Casement, British consular official and Irish nationalist, is born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin
Roger Casement, British consular official and Irish nationalist, is born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin …

Birth of Irish Nationalist Party leader John Redmond in Ballytrent, Co. Wexford
Birth of Irish Nationalist Party leader John Redmond in Ballytrent, Co. Wexford …

Dublin Zoo opens
Dublin Zoo opens …

The Wild Colonial Boy is shot dead in a gun battle with police at Cambelltown, Sydney. Contrary to the popular song, The Wild Colonial Boy was John Donohue, transported from Ireland in 1824
The Wild Colonial Boy is shot dead in a gun battle with police at Cambelltown, Sydney. Contrary to the popular song, The Wild Colonial Boy was John Donohue, transported from Ireland in 1824 …

Birth of James OFlanagan, author, in Fermoy, Co. Cork
Birth of James OFlanagan, author, in Fermoy, Co. Cork …

Marguerite Gardiner, nee Power; Countess of Blessington; author, is born near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Marguerite Gardiner, nee Power; Countess of Blessington; author, is born near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary …

Launch of the Belfast Newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world
Launch of the Belfast Newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world …

Death of dramatist, essayist and publisher Sir Richard Steele, the Dubliner who founded The Tatler and The Spectator
Death of dramatist, essayist and publisher Sir Richard Steele, the Dubliner who founded The Tatler and The Spectator …