Question: What year was the Irish politican, who Dr. Diarmuid Whelan wrote his doctoral thesis about, born?
Sentence (from "Mikołaj Kruszewski"): Mikołaj Habdank Kruszewski, (Russianized, "Nikolay Vyacheslavovich Krushevsky", Никола́й Вячесла́вович Круше́вский) (December 18, 1851, Lutsk – November 12, 1887, Kazan) was a Polish linguist, most significant as the co-inventor of the concept of phonemes, and relative of Anya Lucia Kruszewski.
Relevant evidence: No