Whitley Stokes, jurist and Celtic scholar, is born in Dublin
Whitley Stokes, CSI, CIE, FBA (28 February 1830 – 13 April 1909) was an Irish lawyer and Celtic scholar.
ireland
Newly Elected MP O'Connell, refuses to take the Oath of Supremacy
Newly elected MP Daniel O’Connell presents himself at the Bar of the House of Commons, but is asked to withdraw after refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy.
ireland
Margaret Anna Cusack, Irish Revolutionary Feminist nun and scholar, born
Margaret Anna Cusack is born to an aristocratic family of English origin in Coolak, Co. Dublin; she is the founder of the first Poor Clares convent in the west of Ireland and also a talented writer who publishes on the issues of social injustice. She was raised under the precepts of the Church of England and viewed social justice through Christian concepts. In 1853 she joined the Anglican Sisterhood. She quickly became disillusioned with what she considered the petty concerns of the group. Upon leaving five years later she wrote, I do not believe in offering the gospel of talk to starving people.
ireland
The Catholic Emancipation Act receives royal assent on this date
The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, also known as the Catholic Emancipation Act 1829, removed the sacramental tests that barred Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom from Parliament and from higher offices of the judiciary and state. It was the culmination of a fifty-year process of Catholic emancipation which had offered Catholics successive measures of “relief” from the civil and political disabilities imposed by Penal Laws in both Great Britain and in Ireland in the seventeenth, and early eighteenth, centuries.
ireland
Sir Richard Sankey, soldier and engineer, is born in Cashel, Co. Tipperary
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Hieram Sankey KCB (22 March 1829 – 11 November 1908) was an officer in the Royal (Madras) Engineers in the East India Company’s army in British India, later transferring to the British Army after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the assumption of Crown rule in India.
ireland
William Burke, murderer and body snatcher of Burke and Hare fame, executed
William Burke, infamous for his role in the Burke and Hare murders and subsequent body-snatching scandal in 19th-century Edinburgh, Scotland, was executed on January 28, 1829. His case, along with his accomplice William Hare, became notorious and led to significant legal and social changes.
ireland
Daniel O’Connell wins the Clare election
Daniel O’Connell won the Clare by-election on July 5, 1828, in what became a pivotal moment in Irish and British political history. O’Connell, often referred to as “The Liberator,” was a leading Irish political leader who campaigned for Catholic emancipation—the right of Catholics to sit in the British Parliament, hold public office, and participate fully in public life.
ireland