Saoirse na h-Éireann / Irish Freedom

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JANUARY, 1935 SAOIRSE FRABISH na h-Éireann " Dab óirin so mairpéab se 'nán scuimhe agus 'nán schoirbiú so deo, agus so ndeanpaimis án ndirealt an bócar a caisbeán se búinn so siubal so scí an deine"—Brian O'Higgins Funeral Oration. In 1841, Ireland had a population of 8,175,124. The natural rate of increase of population is much lower than the natural rate of increase of population in Ireland, although all her former troubles would have given upwards of nine millions in the years of the Census Commissioners found in Ireland bit 6,815,704 living souls. Thom's Official Directory. JANUARY. 1 1861. The infanous Act of Union took effect. 2 1862. Death of Kinsale. 3 1862. The Northern Star's first issue. 4 1866. Trial of Charles Kirkhaus. 5 1869. William Potman McCabe, United Irish man, died. 6 1870. Lord Edward Fitzgerald joints United Irishmen. 8 1863. Massacre of Island Mage. 10 1860. Death of Sullivan Beaver died in Spain. 11 1762. Andrew Cherry the Bandit in Limerick. 12 1417. Death of Art McMurrough. 13 1709. Rising started in Clare. 14 1733. Bishop Berkeley died. 15 1860. Opening of the last Session of Parliament. 16 1816. Francis Brown, poet, born. 17 1863. Edward Duffy died in Millbank prison. 18 1811. Charles Kevin the actor born. 19 1862. Career of Frank Lindsay. 20 1867. John Dalton died. 21 1919. Republican Government re-proclaimed. 2 1863. All priests banashed from Ireland by proclamation. 2 1860. The Four Masters begin their Annals. 2 1862. Miles Byrne died in the historian born. 2 1835. Death of the first Earl of Desmond. 2 1855. John Alexander born. 2 1869. "Mary" of the Nation died. 2 1866. £1,000 reward for capture of James Stephens. 2 1798. Archibald Hamilton Rowan put on trial. 3 1869. William Carleton died. 3 1815. Duel of O'Connell and d'Alterno. "Let us add 1869 to our memory, and when a particular era is piled up to commencere the names and granted the signature of the great and best of the height and burning genius, the haughty and faithful hearts and the victorious hands of Ireland, let such the method of that time—that time of glory and misfortune—that time of which Limerick's two sieges typically clear and dark sides—detance and defeat of the Saxon in one, treat on the Saxon and ruin in the other—not the legitimate or soldiers of that great epoch be forgotten. Thomas Davis, 1843. MARCH. 1 1800. Thirty-two Orange Lodges protested against the Union. 2 1807. D. S. Sulliver born. 3 1798. Birth of William Carleton. 4 1778. Birth of Robert Fennans. 5 1847. The Rising of the Fennans. 6 1791. John MacHale, Archibishop of Tuann, born. 7 1903. Massacre of Republican Prisoners at Countres Bridge, Killamery, and at Ball-Pressery Trail. 8 544. St. Seanan died. 9 1798. Parsons' motion rejected. 10 1810. James Fintan Labor born. 11 1720. Sir Toby Butler died. 12 1788. United Irish leaders taken at Oliver Bond's. 13 1829. Massacre of Republican prisoners at Babaghs. 13 1784. Floed introduced Reform Council. 14 1809. Franch land in Kinsale…