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The British Government recognizes the Republic of Ireland
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The Marquess of Bute sold half of the city of Cardiff for £20 million, at that time the biggest-ever British property deal
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General French, acts on mistaken information that Sinn Féin is implicated in a pro-German plot and has most of the leaders arrested
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Maureen O'Sullivan Boyle, born in Roscommon
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Birth of Vincent Barry, organic chemist, in Cork
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Charles Stewart Parnell is elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party
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David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer, died.
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Shan Bullock, novelist, is born in Crom, Co. Fermanagh
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Timothy Michael Healy, Irish politicians, born in Bantry, Co. Cork
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Robert Tannahill, Scottish song writer, died
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Elizabeth, widow of William Molyneux, marries Nathaniel St Andre, a Swiss surgeon
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Cromwells army is defeated in the second assault on Clonmel, suffering its heaviest losses
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King James V established paid judges to sit as the Court of Session
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