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September 01

September 01

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Sole remaining gas street lamp in Glasgow was lit for the last time

September 1, 1971

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

September 1, 1870

Roger Casement, British consular official and Irish nationalist, is born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin

September 1, 1864

Birth of Irish Nationalist Party leader John Redmond in Ballytrent, Co. Wexford

September 1, 1856

Dublin Zoo opens

September 1, 1830

The Wild Colonial Boy is shot dead in a gun battle with police at Cambelltown, Sydney

September 1, 1830

Birth of James OFlanagan, author, in Fermoy, Co. Cork

September 1, 1814

Marguerite Gardiner, nee Power; Countess of Blessington; author, is born near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

September 1, 1789

Launch of the Belfast Newsletter, now the oldest surviving newspaper in Ireland or Britain, and one of the oldest in the world

September 1, 1737

Death of dramatist, essayist and publisher Sir Richard Steele, the Dubliner who founded The Tatler and The Spectator

September 1, 1729

Marriage of Prince James Francis Edward Stewart and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska

September 1, 1719

Battle of Tippermuir, in which Marquis of Montrose defeated Covenanters .

September 1, 1644

Battle of Tippermuir

September 1, 1643

Death of St Giles, patron saint of Edinburgh (and Elgin).

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