Early – publication of the first complete parallel-text edition of
Annals of the Four Masters begins in Dublin as Annála Ríoghachta Éireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from MSS in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity College Dublin with a translation and copious notes by
John O'Donovan.
June – medical students
Kevin Izod O'Doherty and
Richard D'Alton Williams, and chemist
Thomas Antisell, publish the Irish Tribune, a weekly Irish nationalist newspaper. It is suppressed after five issues and the editors arrested on 10 July. O'Doherty is convicted under the Treason Felony Act after a third trial on 30 October and sentenced to transportation to Australia; Williams is acquitted two days later.[5]
July – famine victims on
outdoor relief peak this month at almost 840,000 people.[1]
Early – publication of the first complete parallel-text edition of
Annals of the Four Masters begins in Dublin as Annála Ríoghachta Éireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from MSS in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity College Dublin with a translation and copious notes by
John O'Donovan.
June – medical students
Kevin Izod O'Doherty and
Richard D'Alton Williams, and chemist
Thomas Antisell, publish the Irish Tribune, a weekly Irish nationalist newspaper. It is suppressed after five issues and the editors arrested on 10 July. O'Doherty is convicted under the Treason Felony Act after a third trial on 30 October and sentenced to transportation to Australia; Williams is acquitted two days later.[5]
July – famine victims on
outdoor relief peak this month at almost 840,000 people.[1]