April 14

Led by Rory O'Connor, forces against the Anglo-Irish Treaty seize the Four Courts in Dublin

Limerick Soviet commences general strike in protest against English militarism in Ireland

Birth of actress Valerie Hobson in Larne, Co. Antrim

The Titanic, the worlds largest ship built at Belfasts Harland and Wolfe, hits an iceberg

An Oige, Irish Youth Hostel Association is established

Aberdeen Football Club was founded.

Jack Beattie, socialist politician and trade unionist, is born in Belfast

The Tricolor national flag of Ireland is presented for the first time by Thomas Francis Meagher & the Young Ireland Party

Porteous Riots in Edinburgh take place after the hanging of a smuggler by the City Guard

The Porteous Riots surrounded the activities of Captain John Porteous, Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh (ca. 1695 – 1736). Porteous seems to have been an overbearing official, despised by the mob and the underclasses of Edinburgh society.

Sir Thomas Molyneux, scientist, archaeologist, physician and MP, is born