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Happy St. Patricks Day !

Longhope lifeboat sank in the Pentland Firth with the loss of eight men on board, all from the small island of Hoy.

The cartoon character Dennis the Menace appeared for the first time in the Beano comic.

St. Patrick's Day, becomes a bank day

First issue of Gaelic Leagues An Claidheamh Soluis is published

Harry Clarke, artist, known chiefly for stained-glass work, is born in Dublin

Charlotte Milligan Fox, collector of folk music, is born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone

James Stephens founds the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Dublin