Ireland

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Five people drown in Derrybeg, Co. Donegal when a chapel is flooded during Mass

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Birth of William Thomas Cosgrave , Irish statesman and father of Liam Cosgrave*. A member of Sinn Féin, he fought in the Easter Rebellion and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Freed a year later, he was elected to the British Parliament in 1918 but pro

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Charles Stewart Parnell is elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party

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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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The Irish Rugby Football Union is founded in Dublin

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The Royal University of Ireland is founded by charter

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Beginning of famous boycott against Irish landlord Captain Boycott.

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Sean O'Casey, playwright, born in Dublin

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