Isaac Butt Founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule Is Now the Objective of Constitutional Nationalists

September 01, 1870

Isaac Butt founds the Home Government Association; Home Rule is now the objective of constitutional nationalists

Ireland

Birth of golf course designer Dr Alister Mackenzie; he was responsible for Augusta National and Cypress Point, among others.

Birth in Dublin of John Pius Boland, nationalist politician and Irelands first Olympic gold medalist