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A spectacular blaze at Bells Brae, Edinburgh
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Viscount Cunningham, British admiral issued his command Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass
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Éamon de Valera is elected Taoiseach
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John McDermott, Lord Justice of Appeal for Northern Ireland, is born
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John MacLean, socialist revolutionary, tried in the High Court for sedition
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Irish Patriot, Thomas Kent, is executed at Cork Detention Barracks
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Austin Clarke, considered to be the greatest poet of his generation after Yeats, is born
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The Dublin International Exhibition opens in Earlsfort Terrace
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Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish playwright and novelist and author of Peter Pan born
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Charles Kickham, Fenian, novelist, and author of Knocknagow, is born in Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
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Charles Kickham, Fenian, novelist, and author of Knocknagow, is born in Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
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Birth in Dublin of John Brougham, actor and dramatist
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Thomas Wyatt, architect, is born in Loughlin House, Co. Roscommon
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The Irish House of Lords expresses hope that union of Ireland and England will follow union of England and Scotland
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Charles Chalmont is sent by Louis XIV to command the Irish army and arrives on this date
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Colonel Thomas Blood dresses as a clergyman and attempts to steal the British crown jewels from the Tower of London
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The Battle of Clonmel begins with the first of two assaults
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Edmund Mortimer, 8th earl of Ulster, and heir presumptive to the throne of England, is appointed lieutenant
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