Ireland

Historian Walter Biggar Blaikie born.

Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, born in Dublin

Abraham “Bram” Stoker, (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) the author of the famous novel “Dracula,” was born on November 08, 1847, in 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland

Birth in Carron, Co. Clare of Michael Cusack, GAA founder

Birth of Sir Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, musician and composer.

Acts setting up soup kitchens and rate-aided outdoor Famine relief come to an end

Birth of Alice Stopford Green in Kells, Co. Meath.

Alice Stopford Green is born in Kells, County Meath, on May 30, 1847. A pioneering Irish historian and nationalist, she is best known for challenging colonial narratives by demonstrating that Ireland possessed a rich and sophisticated culture prior to English rule. Her influential works, including The Making of Ireland and Its Undoing, reshaped perceptions of Irish history. A strong supporter of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, she is nominated to the first Seanad Éireann (Senate) in December 1922, becoming one of the few women in early Irish political life and a key figure in the cultural nationalism of her time.

Death of Thomas Chalmers, first Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland.

Daniel O'Connell, The Liberator, dies in Genoa

The American relief ship, Jamestown, lands supplies in Cork for famine victims

Pope Pius IX issues an encyclical called On aid for Ireland

Pius donated money to Ireland during the Great Famine. In 1847 he addressed the suffering Irish people in the encyclical Praedecessores nostros.