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Ireland

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June 20, 1887

New Tay rail bridge opened, the longest in Britain.

May 15, 1887

Edwin Muir, Poet and critic, born

January 12, 1887

Molly Allgood, actress, born

December 7, 1888

Joyce Cary, author, is born in Derry

August 13, 1888

Birth of John Logie Baird, developer of television.

August 5, 1888

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

June 9, 1888

Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, born

March 4, 1888

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

March 2, 1888

Birth in Dublin of Cyril Bentham Falls, military historian and journalist

December 1, 1889

Michael Hayes, politician and professor of Irish, is born in Dublin

November 20, 1889

Donn Byrne, novelist and short-story writer, is born

September 19, 1889

Sean Keating, painter, is born in Limerick

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