October 14

Learn about The History of the Celtic People

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The, 50 pence decimal coin was first issued, replacing the ten shilling note.

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German submarine sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney, with the loss of, 810 lives.

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Strikes, marches and protests are held in Belfast against low unemployment payments, temporarily uniting Catholic and Protestant unemployed

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Tipperary IRA man, Sean Treacy, is killed in a gun battle in Talbot Street, Dublin

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Eamon de Valera, Fianna Fáil leader, Taoiseach and president of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, NY

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Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, nearly, 20 boats and, 129 men (1 in, 3 of the towns male population) lost their lives in a storm.

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Nationalist and Gaelic League activist, Mary Ellen Spring-Rice is born

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First issue of The Nation published

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Birth of author and patriot, Thomas Osborne Davis in Mallow, Co. Cork

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Wolfe Tone visits Belfast for the first time

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First steamboat tested on Dalswinton Loch by Patrick Miller and William Symington.

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Edmond Sexton Pery is unanimously re-elected as Speaker of the Irish parliament

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George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

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Birth of United Irish leader, Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Carton House in Co. Kildare

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Irish Brigade of France fights in the battle of Friedlingen

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The Earl of Tyrone dies

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After taking Cork on 28 September, Marlbourough takes Kinsale for the Williamites, who now control Munster

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Birth at St James Palace, London of King James VII, second son of King Charles I and brother of King Charles II.

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Victory of Robert the Bruce of Scotland in Yorkshire.

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Edward Bruce, brother of Robert the Bruce, killed in a battle near Dundalk, Ireland.

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Second marriage of King Alexander III (to Yolanda de Dreux).

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