Birth on Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, of Helen Blackburn, Early Leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Women

May 25, 1842

Birth on Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, of Helen Blackburn, early leader of the movement for the emancipation of women

Ireland

Arthur Sullivan, the son of an Irish musician, is born

The first number of James MacKnights “Banner of Ulster”, the newspaper of the Presbyterian Church, is published in Ulster