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Referendum held on British Membership of the European Community.
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Birth of Christy Brown, paraplegic painter and writer
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The first sitting of the Northern Ireland Parliament takes place
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Cornelius Ryan, war correspondent and author of The Longest Day, The Last Battle and A Bridge Too Far, is born in Dublin
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Death of Listowel man Lord Kitchener
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HMS Hampshire sank off Orkney after striking a mine. Lord Kitchener, conqueror of Sudan, was drowned.
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Margaret Anne Cusack (Sister Mary Francis Clare), the Nun of Kenmare, dies in Leamington, Warwickshire, England
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Alasdair Mac Cába, pro-Treaty nationalist, is born in Ballymote, Co. Sligo
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Birth in Dublin of William Thomas Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
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James Connolly, Irish revolutionary hero, born in Edinburgh - Scotland.
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John Couch Adams FRS, British mathematician and astronomer, born
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Defeat of the rebels at New Ross, Co. Wexford
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The Reverend William Steel Dickson, a Presbyterian minister and United Irishmen supporter is arrested and imprisoned without trial
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An Act provides for the establishment of a Catholic seminary
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Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations born Kirkcaldy.
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Richard Talbot, the Earl of Tyrconnell, appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland
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Eoghan Rua O'Neill, defeats Robert Munro’s Scottish army at Benburb in Co. Tyrone
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An Act of the Scottish Parliament formally regulating heralds.
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