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Ten young men, potato-pickers from Achill Island, die when a bothy catches fire on a farm at Kirkintilloch, Scotland
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The Free State is elected to the council of the League of Nations
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Birth of Chaim Herzog, former president of Israel, born in Belfast and educated in Dublin
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Frank OConnor, (pseudonym of Michael ODonovan), short-story writer and author of poetic translations from Irish is born in Cork
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David Hughes Parry, Welsh educator and language activist, born
David Hughes Parry, also known as Sir David Hughes Parry, was born on September 17, 1893. …
David Dunbar Buick was born at, 26 Green Street, Arbroath. He emigrated to the USA with his parents at the age of two. Although he founded the Buick Manufacturing Company which later became General Motors, it was William C. Durant who grew the company.
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3000 French troops depart for Ireland from Brest
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Prince Charles Edward Stuart took up residence at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh.
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Bonnie Prince Charles enters Edinburgh while a bagpiper plays - The King Shall Enjoy His Own Again
The Jacobite cause was still supported by many Highland Clans, both Catholic and Protestant, and the Catholic Charles hoped for a warm welcome from these clans to start an insurgency by Jacobites throughout Britain, but there was no immediate response. Charles raised his fathers standard at Glenfinnan and there raised a large enough force to enable him to march on the city of Edinburgh, which quickly surrendered. …
John Holwell, surgeon and survivor of Black Hole of Calcutta is born in Dublin
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