On October 17, 1886 in Celtic History
John dillon announces plan of campaign for irish tenants against unfair rents.
An Irish nationalist politician who sat in parliament for Tipperary, and was one of the leaders of Young Ireland. John Dillon was educated at the Roman Catholic university of Dublin, and afterwards studied medicine. He entered parliament in 1880 as mem
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