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Happy St. Patricks Day !
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Longhope lifeboat sank in the Pentland Firth with the loss of eight men on board, all from the small island of Hoy.
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The cartoon character Dennis the Menace appeared for the first time in the Beano comic.
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St. Patrick's Day, becomes a bank day
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First issue of Gaelic Leagues An Claidheamh Soluis is published
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Harry Clarke, artist, known chiefly for stained-glass work, is born in Dublin
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Charlotte Milligan Fox, collector of folk music, is born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone
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James Stephens founds the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Dublin
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The Ossianic Society is founded to preserve and publish manuscripts of the Fionn cycle
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Patrick Sheehan, Canon Sheehan, priest and writer, is born in Mallow, Co. Cork
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Patrick Edward Connor, Union General, is born in Co. Kerry
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Charles James Patrick Mahon, is born in Ennis, Co. Clare
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Sir Thomas Maclear, astronomer, is born in Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone
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Patrick Brontë, clergyman, is born in Ballynaskeagh, Co. Down
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King James IV, King of Scots, born.
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Treaty of Edinburgh between King Robert I and Edward III
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