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Recent additions and updates to the Celtic history archive.
October 28, 1880
Dr. Henry Faulds, a Scottish medical missionary working in Japan, publishes a groundbreaking letter in Nature magazine …
October 24, 1880
Fanny Parnell launches the Ladies Land League in New York. This October 24, 1880 entry records a moment in Celtic …
October 15, 1880
Dr Marie Stopes, founder of first modern birth control clinic, born Edinburgh. This October 15, 1880 entry records a …
October 14, 1880
Nationalist and Gaelic League activist, Mary Ellen Spring-Rice is born. This October 14, 1880 entry records a moment in …
September 25, 1880
Viscount Mountmorres is killed near Clonbur, Co. Galway. This September 25, 1880 entry records a moment in Celtic …
September 24, 1880
Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent for Lord Erne in County Mayo, became the unwilling namesake of a new form of …
September 24, 1880
Refusing to work for offending landlords, farmers demonstrated their united power in Mayo against Captain Boycott in …
September 19, 1880
Charles Stewart Parnell (June 27, 1846 - October 06, 1891) was an Irish political leader and one of the most important …
August 20, 1880
Death of Ellen Kean, one of the greatest actresses of her time. This August 20, 1880 entry records a moment in Celtic …
August 15, 1880
Five people drown in Derrybeg, Co. Donegal when a chapel is flooded during Mass. This August 15, 1880 entry records a …
June 6, 1880
William Thomas Cosgrave, Irish statesman and founding leader of the Irish Free State, is born in Dublin on June 6, 1880. …
June 5, 1880
Birth in Dublin of William Thomas Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State. This …
