Helter Skelter Weather and Tralee Tragedies
In Tralee this December heavy rains and storms caused damage amid lightning and near hurricane force winds. A house at Rourke of Rathaway burned with a family inside, while two others escaped. A man died on the road returning from Milltown fair, possibly from inebriation or apoplexy. A gunsmith’s misfire injured Sheriff’s Bailiff Gough in Limerick. A Cratloe cabin death followed a man from Tipperary collapsing and dying. James Macagiara fell from a chair and drowned near Davis’s garden.
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Tralee
Jimoty Rourke
Rataway
Scanlal
Milltown
Limerick
Gough
Tipperary
Cratloe
James Macagiara
St. Francis’s Abbey
Davis
Vision of a World in Silence and Redemption
Fragments depict a prophetic moment as a divine birth and savior arrive awakening nature to adoration. The scene contrasts earthly turmoil with a hoped-for era of virtue and universal peace led by a sacred infant, promising deliverance from guilt and despair.
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Hanel
Hell
Cerest
Tedigage
Uae
Fragmented Sacred Verse Amid Echoes of Fate and Mercy
Fragmented lines speak of fate and judgment as trump sounds echo. References to virtue guilt mercy and healing tears mix with archaic imagery and disjointed phrases. The piece parodies solemn declamation, hinting at divine judgment and human contrition.
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Wien
Go Look on Brooks Land and Brooks
A Dublin Journal notice hails Mrs Brooks for a celebrated comic performance titled He Would Be a Soldier. The verses praise virtue over fashion and urge public admiration for domestic worth as she takes the stage, with poems lauding her beauty, purity, and gentleness.
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Adapebotster
Jantat
Brooks
Folly
Turbulent Night in City Amid Protests and Crime Report
Fragmented excerpts describe a disturbed night with mobs and police aiming to suppress disorders. The piece notes burials restricted in cities, harvest fortunes, and fear of grain scarcity, alongside a Wicklow burglary where Patrick Nowlan’s house was robbed of 21 guineas and clothes. It lists marriages and deaths including Owen Dermot, Dr Christian Pittsley, and John Byrne.
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Magiteicy
Thig
Germany
Patrick Nowlan
Dunigvin
Wicklow
Nowlan
James O'Reilly
Thomastreet
Mary Cormick
Parliament Street
John_Eades
Rathfaroham
Mary Hill
Roger Hill
Sandybdik
Athlowh
George Morris
Hig Majesty
18Th Regiment of Light Dragoons
Mife Wall
James Wall
Faterford
Ely
Usher's Quay
Owen Dermot
Batchelors Walk
Christian, Pifley
Liffeystreet
John Byrne
Sackville-lane
Elizabeth Deve- Ho
Thomas Ivory
Dublin Society Academy
Dublin Election Declares Higgins Winner Amid Broad Frost and Frostbound Travel
An election in Hoffers Hall Dublin for a Common Capitol representative declared Mr Higgins elected by a large majority. The page notes widespread European frosts freezing rivers from the Danube to the Elbe and snowbound Italian cities. It discusses emigration shifts, Native American tensions, and a historical nod to Penn’s restitution of native lands, alongside a bright morning luminous object in the north.
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Corporation of Hoffers
Guild of St. George
Dublin
Higgins
Danibes
Rhine
Elbe
Madrid
Pisa
Florence
Genoa
America
United States
Europe
Penn
Solon
Lycurgus
Charles
Suny
Sale of Stock at Viobe T-810 Navan Meath January Sale
Property of R Taaffe consisting of Black cattle mules and other stock all sold leaving only sheep. Sale to begin Monday next the 11th of January at eleven o'clock in the morning and continue until all are sold. Dated 6 December 1786.
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R. Taaffe
Navan
Meath
FOTHERGHT GRAND Ronton ERob writes oN Medicind
Debauched conduct by women and wine blamed on ignorance. Grand Preparation claimed to cure debility with mercury. Sold with directions at the printer's harbor.
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erRe
A. Properse
Aya
Akc
Gs. Sd
Hbrbory
Minor of 11 Years Sells Meath Lands in Naul District
A notice states John Pollard an 11 year old in minority holds the dwelling houses outbuildings garden and lands of Bodin Fown in Meath near Naul comprising about 90 acres of meadow. Proposals in writing to George Boleyn Whitney or Mr Abbott in Dublin. Edward Lynch will show the land on the premises during minority.
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Baltibo
Balyibons
Wicklow
Blessington
Dublin
Komtuy Bet
John Smith
Iffy
Battibeys
Naas
Wav
Fefy
Peter-déreet
Dublituy
John Pollard
Minos
Bodin Fown
Meath
Naul
George Boleyn Whitney
Dopfet-street
Mr. Abbott
George Hill
Edward Lynch
John Vol
TULLY ESTATE PUBLIC AUCTION FOR 570 ACRES IN LONGFORD
Public auction to sell the Tully Estate in the Manor of Mot and Parish of Granard Longford comprising about 570 acres of village and demesne land held in fee simple. The lands were formerly the Vernon Wilfan and Colenos estates and are currently let at a yearly value of 5141 19s 4d with a two year fine. Further particulars available from London or Wales offices. Sale date noted as Wednesday the 24th last January.
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J. A. Garraway
Luster
Mot
Granard
Longfoal
Tully
Francis Vernon Wilfan
Geant Colenos Ke
Lane
London
Wales
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Histcount Bank
Back Partour
Corkhill
The
Dublin Journal
Martha Bermingham
Richard Bermingham
Fleet-market
Martha
Gaunday
Aserm
ST. Nicholas
Osea S.yock
D.D
Charity School
E. Right Han
Earl Bective
Smitshfeld
R. Walter Troy
Smithfield
Dean Moore
Meadfort
Kells
Littey
Nildare
Joan Forbes
Kildare-lireet
Robert Smith
Hampstead
A Derson
Seack
Tromtiety
Norris
Lexcus
Medicina Indique
Abd Ellthey
CIA
Fotherght Grand Renton
Erob
Sun
L'A
Bar
Rei
Sat
Sin
Bynum
Dublin Mearme
N. B
Richard ‘Chwaites
County
Longford
Bally Bay
Clounagh
Han John Butler
Lown
Finea
John Butler
Molesworth
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