Ireland

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First soccer international in Ireland; England beats the Irish squad

ireland

Second Gladstone Land Act introduces the three Fs - fair rent, fixity of tenure, free sale - and sets up the Land Commission

ireland

First issue of United Ireland, Parnellite weekly

ireland

Padraic Colum playwright, poet and novelist, born

ireland

Peadar Ó Dubhda, teacher of Irish and translator, born

ireland

Birth of Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin.

ireland

Richard Downey (youngest ever Catholic archbishop in 1928, who reduces his weight from 18 stone to 9 stone in the 1930s) is born in Kilkenny

ireland

Thomas Carlyle, writer and historian, died in London

ireland