September 15

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St Mirren Day (patron saint of Paisley).

12,000 Royal Navy sailors on, 15 ships went on strike at Invergordon over cuts in their pay.

Pat O'Callaghan, physician, hammer-thrower an Olympic gold medal is born near Kanturk, Co. Cork

Birth in Castlebar of singer Margaret Burke Sheridan

First soccer international in Ireland; England beats the Irish squad

John Blake Dillon, Young Irelander and co-founder of The Nation, dies in Killarney

Police raid and close the Irish People offices; Rossa, Luby and OLeary are arrested

Sir William Whitla, physician and professor, is born in Co. Monaghan

The Hector leaves Loch Broom, near Ullapool, to sail to Pictou, Nova Scotia, carrying emigrants escaping from the Clearances.

The Breton gentry gather in Rennes to defend the liberties of Brittany.

City Baillie shot when Edinburgh High School pupils rioted when refused a holiday.

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