Ireland

Joyce Cary, author, is born in Derry

Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957), known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official.

Pneumatic bicycle tires were patented by inventor John Boyd Dunlop from Ayrshire.

Birth of John Logie Baird, developer of television.

John Logie Baird, the Scottish engineer and inventor who is widely recognized as the developer of the first working television system, was born on August 13, 1888, in Helensburgh, Scotland. Baird’s pioneering work in the field of television laid the groundwork for the technology that would eventually revolutionize communication and entertainment worldwide.

Philip Henry Sheridan, the son of Irish immigrants from Cavan, dies in Nonquit, Massachusetts.

Philip Henry Sheridan, a prominent Union general during the American Civil War, died on August 5, 1888, in Nonquitt, Massachusetts. Sheridan was one of the most celebrated military leaders of the Civil War and played a crucial role in several key battles and campaigns that contributed to the Union’s victory.

Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, born

Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough — unionist politician and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1943 to 1963 — is born in Colebrooke, County Fermanagh on June 9, 1888. He was the first and only Northern Ireland Prime Minister to be elevated to the peerage.

Grace Gifford Plunkett, Irish patriot, is born in Rathmines, Dublin

Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett (4 March 1888 – 13 December 1955) was an Irish artist and cartoonist who was active in the Republican movement, who married her fiancé Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol only a few hours before he was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising.

John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans, Yonkers, NY

Winifred Carney, trade unionist and revolutionary, is born in Bangor, Co. Down

Maria Winifred Carney (4 December 1887 – 21 November 1943), also known as Winnie Carney, was an Irish suffragist, trade unionist, and Irish independence activist.

Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish patriot and poet, is born in Dublin

Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Seosamh Máire Pluincéid; 21 November 1887 – 4 May 1916) was an Irish nationalist, republican, poet, journalist, revolutionary and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. Joseph Mary Plunkett married Grace Gifford in 1916, seven hours before his execution.

Birth of John M. Hayes in Murroe, Co. Limerick; priest and founder of Muintir na Tíre

John Martin Hayes (11 November 1887 – 30 January 1957) was an Irish Catholic priest and the founder of Muintir na Tíre, a national rural community development organisation.