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Election for the new Scottish Parliament
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Icelandic gunboats fired live rounds at British fishing trawlers, many of them from Scottish ports, during the Cod War over fishing rights
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Last major bombing attack on the Clyde area by the Luftwaffe
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Máire de Paor (née McDermott) archaeologist and arts activist, is born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal
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The U-20, a German U-boat commanded by Captain Schweiger, sinks the Centurion off the south-east Irish coast
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William Conor, painter, born in Belfast
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Phoenix Park murders, The assassination Lord Frederick Cavendish, and T.H. Burke
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Sir James Young Simpson advocate of chloroform, died.
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William Archer, Irish naturalist and librarian, born in Magherahamlet, Co. Down. Archer
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Robert O’Hara Burke, explorer, born in St. Cleran’s, Co. Galway
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Mary Molesworth, and her daughters Melosina and Mary die in a fire at their London house
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Act of Parliament removes the right to vote from Catholics
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Philip de Courtenay lands at Dalkey and campaigns in the midlands and the Leinster mountains
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Reginald II assumes Manx throne.
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Donatus (or Dunan), the first Bishop of Dublin, dies
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