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After the suppression of the Irish People newspaper in September 1865, disaffection among Irish radical nationalists continued to smoulder, and during the later part of 1866, IRB leader James Stephens endeavoured to raise funds in the United States for a fresh rising planned for the following year. However the rising of 1867 proved poorly ...
25 January – Dolway Walkington, Irish national rugby union captain (died 1926). 9 February – James Douglas, journalist (died 1940). 10 April – George William Russell, critic, poet and artist (died 1935). 19 April – James Cullen, priest and mathematician (died 1933). 13 May – Thomas Gann, doctor, archaeologist and writer (died 1938).
The explosion damaged nearby houses, killed 12 civilians and wounded 120; no prisoners escaped and the attack was a failure. [2] The event was described by The Times the following day as "a crime of unexampled atrocity", and compared to the "infernal machines" used in Paris in 1800 and 1835 and the Gunpowder Treason of 1605. Denounced by ...
Portraits of the Manchester Martyrs – Larkin (left), Allen (centre) and O'Brien (right) – on a shamrock. The Manchester Martyrs (Irish: Mairtirígh Mhanchain) [1] [2] were three Irish Republicans – William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien – who were hanged in 1867 following their conviction of murder after an attack on a police van in Manchester, England, in which a ...
The worst of these was the Great Irish Famine (1845–1851), in which about one million people died and another million emigrated. [ 4 ] The economic problems of most Irish people were in part the result of the small size of their landholdings and a large increase in the population in the years before the famine. [ 5 ]
Northern Ireland wants to move forward. But 25 years after the Good Friday accord celebrated by Clinton and Biden, many are mired in a painful past. ... With some 3,600 people killed and many more ...
Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) Irish Republic [1] United Kingdom: Victory. Anglo-Irish Treaty: [2] Dominion status for 26 counties of Southern Ireland as the Irish Free State; 6 counties of Northern Ireland remain part of UK; United Kingdom retains the Ports of Berehaven, Spike Island and Lough Swilly; Irish Civil War (1922–1923 ...
23 June – Francis Browning, cricketer (died 1916). 9 August – Patrick McKenna, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, 1909–1942 (died 1942). 14 September – Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (died 1958). Full date unknown. P. J. Brady, Irish Nationalist Member of UK Parliament for Dublin St Stephen’s Green (died ...