Ireland

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Thomas (Buck) Whaley, MP for Enniscorthy, dies at Knutsford

ireland

The last session of the Irish parliament ends

ireland

Last session of the Irish Parliament begins

ireland

Daniel O'Connell makes his first public speech, opposing Union with England

ireland

The Act of Union dissolves the Irish parliament and transfers legislative powers to Westminster

ireland

Nicholas Callan, priest, physicist, writer, and inventor of the induction coil, is born in Dromiskin, Co. Louth

ireland

David Douglas, explorer and botanist, born at Scone, Perthshire. In addition to the Douglas Fir, he brought back to Europe lupins, phlox, penstemmon, sunflowers, clarkia, Californian poppy, mimulus, flowering currant, rose of sharon and mahonia.

ireland

William Dargan, railway engineer and philanthropist, is born in Carlow

ireland