• Events from the year 1868 in Ireland. January – American transport entrepreneur George Francis Train is arrested in Cork for debt and spends much of the...
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    schools (Irish: Scoileanna Saothair, IPA: [ˈsˠkɛlʲən̪ˠə ˈsˠiːhəɾʲ]) were established in Ireland under the Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act 1868 to care...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1868. 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting...
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    The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 49) was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. The act did not alter the overall...
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    The 1868 United States presidential election was the 21st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1868. In the first election of...
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    (Ireland) 1868 or the Industrial Schools (Ireland) Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 25) was an act of Parliament which created industrial schools in Ireland...
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    title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1868 and bestowed upon James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn. Although the Dukedom is in the Peerage...
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    The 1868 United Kingdom general election in Ireland resulted in the Liberals under Gladstone strengthening their control over Ireland, particularly the...
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  • valuation survey of Ireland completed in 1868. Richard John Griffith started to value land in Scotland, where he spent two years in 1806-1807 valuing terrain...
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    The 1868 United Kingdom general election was the first after passage of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing...
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    James Connolly (category 1868 births)
    James Connolly (Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile; 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was a Scottish born Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed...
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  • politician (born 1802) Timeline of Scottish history 1868 in Ireland "The ending of public executions in the 19th century". www.capitalpunishmentuk.org. Retrieved...
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  • Surgeon General of the United States Army Robert James Patterson (1868–1930), Irish Presbyterian minister and temperance activist Robert Paterson (disambiguation)...
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  • Baron Ashtown (1804–1880), his nephew, Irish peer Frederick Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown (1868–1946), his grandson, Irish peer Frederick Trench (British Army...
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  • musician (bassist) Vincent McNabb (1868–1943), Irish scholar and priest Fictional Characters Colin McNabb, a character in Agatha Christie's novel Hickory...
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    Great Britain and Ireland that began in 1866 and ended in 1868 was led by Lord Derby in the House of Lords and Benjamin Disraeli in the House of Commons...
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    Additionally, devolution in Northern Ireland is conditional on co-operation between the Northern Ireland Executive and the Government of Ireland (see North/South...
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    subordinate grange was founded in Washington, D.C., on January 8, 1868, and Ireland served as the schoolmaster. Ireland was responsible for the publication...
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    The Rupert's Land Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 105) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then was), authorizing...
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    an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s. It was a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. It...
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    Benjamin Guinness (category UK MPs 1865–1868)
    Guinness, 1st Baronet (1 November 1798 – 19 May 1868) was an Irish brewer and philanthropist. Born in Dublin, he was the third son of the second Arthur...
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    June 1868. "31 & 32 Victoria c.60". The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. His Majesty's statute and law Printers. 1868. pp. 248–263...
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  • The year 1868 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. January 30 – Publication of Charles Darwin's The Variation of...
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    James Barry Farrell in the Italianate style, opened as the Enniscorthy Asylum in 1868. It became Enniscorthy Mental Hospital in the 1920s and went on...
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    Irish Republic in the ongoing Irish War of Independence. The conflict resulted in the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921. Under the treaty, Ireland would...
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    Ireland had an estimated population of 5,380,000 as of 1 April 2024. The island of Ireland's population has fluctuated over history. In the 18th and early...
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    Holocaust – Irish Examiner, 20 March 2004 "My Life for Ireland (1941)". Collins, M.E., 1993, Ireland 1868-1966, Dublin: the Educational Company of Ireland, pg...
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    Our Lady's Hospital, Ennis (category 1868 establishments in Ireland)
    opened as the Ennis Asylum in 1868. It became Ennis Mental Hospital in the 1920s and went on to become Our Lady's Hospital in the 1950s. After the introduction...
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    Unionism in Ireland is a political tradition that professes loyalty to the crown of the United Kingdom and to the union it represents with England, Scotland...
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  • of Great Britain) to be Duke of Abercorn in the Irish Peerage when he became Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1868 and the granting of the Curzon of Kedleston...
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