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Founding of Fine Gael Party
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Birth of Desmond Guinness, author and conservationist
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Poet, educator and eventual Easter Rising rebel Patrick Pearse opens St. Ednas school for boys (Scoil Eanna), combining new European theories of education with a focus on the glory of the Gaelic past
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A conference of the Tenant League in Dublin adopts a policy of independent opposition in Parliament
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Thomas Nicholas Burke, Dominican friar, preacher and lecturer, is born in Galway
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John Martin, revolutionary, transportee and politician, is born near Newry, Co. Down
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Battle of Ballinamuck, Ireland , last battle of The Year of the French.
In 1798 Ballinamuck was the scene of one of the last and bloodiest battles fought on Irish soil by a foreign power. Ballinamuck was the place of surrender of the combined French and Irish troops under General Humber to the English troops under General Cornwallis. …
Battle of Ballinamuck - last major battle of The Year of the French; after a short fight, Humbert surrenders
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A second convention of Dungannon - a gathering of Volunteers from Ulster- is held and prepares the way for a National Volunteer convention on parliamentary reform
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