May 12, 1823Daniel O'Connell founds the Catholic Association, an organization dedicated to obtaining the franchise for Catholics
September 14, 1824Sir Frederick Falkiner, impoverished former MP for Athy, Co. Dublin and Co. Carlow commits suicide in Naples
June 26, 1824Physicist and mathematician, Sir William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin of Largs, is born in College Square East, Belfast
May 18, 1825The House of Lords rejects the Catholic Emancipation Bill which would disenfranchise Irish forty-shilling free-holders and put clergy on state salaries
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