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May 19th , 1710

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John Sheahan, fiddle player with the Dubliners, is born

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Sir Isaac Butt invents the term Home Rule

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Máire Ni Aodáin (Mary Hayden), Irish historian, is born

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Standish Hayes O'Grady, scholar, is born in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick

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Anna Maria O'dell, the 2nd wife of William O'dell gives birth to a stillborn child in the Marshalsea debtors prison, where she had accompanied her husband

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Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of the United Irishmen, is betrayed by Francis Magan; is arrested and is shot while being apprehended

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James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson- died.

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Death in Auchinleck of James Boswell, biographer of Dr Johnston.

May 19, 1795

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An Act by the British Parliament forbids the export of Irish wool

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