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The first Dáil Éireann is dissolved and the second Dáil convenes
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Court-martial of Terence MacSwiney, Irish Volunteer and Lord Mayor of Cork
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National Literary Society is founded
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Charles Stewart Parnell becomes a Freeman of the city of Dublin
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National Land League of Mayo is founded
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The Intermediate Education Act grants female students the right to participate in public examinations and to enter into careers and professions
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An Act is passed which allows for tithe payments to be commuted
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The Convention Act bans representative bodies set up to campaign for a change in the law, i.e. putative rivals to the parliament
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Birth of Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne), poet and author
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Treaty of Union between Brittany and France, guaranteeing autonomy for Brittany.
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