Lady Rosa O'Neill died, 1660. Archibald Hamilton Rowan died, 1834. John Francis Maguire died, 1872. St. Malachi died, 1148. Revolt of the Earl of Desmond Edmund Kean born, 1773. Thomas Steele born, 1788. John Charles Lucas died, 1771. Volunteers paraded in College Phelim O'Neill entered Newry with the Irish army, 1641. Eugenius Roche born, 1829. Kathleen O'Meara died, 1888. Dr. Gerald of Desmond murdered, 1584. Eugene O'Curry born 1796. Stephens, Kickham, Duffy, and Brophy arrested, 1865. Oliver Goldsmith born, 1728. Wolfe Tone condemned to death, 1798. Battle of Knockranoss, 1647. John Edward Walsh born, 1816. John O'Hagan died, 1890. John Keogh died, 1817. St. Lorcan O'Tuathail died, 1180. Charles Carroll of Carrol. ton died, 1832. Thomas Addis Emmet died, 1827. Gerald FitzGerald died, 1581. William Marsden born, 1754. Florence Conry died, 1629. Joseph Brenan born, 1828. Father Lavelle died, 1886. Presentation of the Irish colours to the Irish Brigade by the ladies of New York, 1861. First Duke of Leinster died, 1773. Wolfe Tone died, 1798. Catholic clergy banished from Ireland, 1678. S'. Columbanus died, 615. Thomas Russell born, 1767. George Darley died, 1846. Execution of Allen, Larkin, and Laurence Sterne born, 1713. Napper Tandy arrested, 1798. Sir James Ware born, 1594. King Roderick O'Connor died, 1198. Rev. Dr. Cahill born, 1796. Arthur Gerald Geoghegan died, 1889. Dean Swift born, 1667. Denny Lane died, 1895. Sir James Ware died, 1666. James Sheridan Knowles died, 1862. Henry Flood died, 1791. Sarsfield landed at Brest, 1691. Frances Power Cobbe died, 1882. Frederick W. N. Bayley died, 1852. Sir John Parnell died, 1801. Colmcille born, 521. The Ninth Earl of Desmond slain, 1487. Meeting of the Irish Bar to oppose the Union, 1798. John General T. F. Burke born, 1840. Richard Doyle died, 18S3. Gerald, Earl of Kildare died, 1534. Gerald Griffin born, 1803. John Savage born, 1828. Rev. Charles Wolfe born, 1791. Bottle Riot at the Theatre Clontarf burned, 1641. First speech made by Grattan in the Tone and Hoche left France, 1797. R. A. Milliken died, 1815. Joseph Poole executed, 1883. Henry Luttrell died, 1851. Release of Fenian prisoners, Sir Martin Shee born, 1769. John Wilson Croker born, 1780. Edward Bunting died, 1843. Battle of Kinsale, 1601. William Bailie died, 1810. Sir Samuel Madden born, 1686. French Fleet arrived in Bantry Bay, 1796. W. J. Fitzpatrick Hugh O'Donnell and Art and Henry O'Neill escaped from Dion Boucicault born, 1822. born 1812. William Sampson died, 1836. Terence MacMahon Hughes French Fleet sailed from Bantry Bay, 1797. James Fintan Lalor died, 1850. Robert Boyle died, 1690. Retreat to Leitrim begun, 1602. Full moon, 7th. last quarter, 15th; new moon, 23rd; first quarter, 30th. Eclipse of the moon, 7th; visible in Ireland. Central eclipse of the sun, 23rd; invisible in Ireland. Winter begins, 22nd. High water at the Irish ports can be ascertained by subtracting from the time of high water at Dublin Bar. For instance, if it be high water at Dublin Bar at 11.20 subtract 30 minutes and the resultant, 10.50, will be the time of high water at Belfast. For the other ports subtract as follows from the Dublin time: THE IRISH Agriculture in Ireland. THE SUPREMACY OF AGRICULTURE.-Obvious incompleteness would characterise any review of a country that failed to take into consideration the main features of its greatest industry. Hence the reason for the appearance of a brief article on Irish agriculture in this Year Book. No two opinions can exist that in Ireland at all events the oldest business of mankind--that of farming-is still the most important and most extensively followed of all. From time immemorial agriculture has been our chief business: it is so at the present day, and, even though the modern revival promises to create and develop within our midst many remunerative sources of employment, one can hardly with seriousness imagine a time arriving in our history, when agriculture will be ousted from the conspicuous position which it has so long occupied. It can be readily understood that anything in the way of an exhaustive account of the ir.dustry would be an impossible task within the limits of one short article, but it is hoped to endeavour to convey some idea of its scope and the directions in which the erergies of those engaged in it are principally guided. The subject might be treated from three standpoints, viz., 1st, from the historical aspect, which would certainly be productive of much interesting material for the delectation of the economist, the educationalist, and the politician; 2nd, from the point of view of things as they at present actually are, or, 3rd, from the perspective standpoint, endeavouring to forecast by the aid of past experiences bearing on modern movements what the future holds in store for our farmers. |