Birth of Oliver St. John Gogarty, Writer, and the Model for the Stately, Plump Buck Mulligan in Joyces Ulysses

August 17, 1878

Birth of Oliver St. John Gogarty, writer, and the model for the stately, plump Buck Mulligan in Joyces Ulysses

Ireland

The Intermediate Education Act grants female students the right to participate in public examinations and to enter into careers and professions

New York Gaelic Society is formed