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Total results: 15

Election for the new Scottish Parliament

Icelandic gunboats fired live rounds at British fishing trawlers, many of them from Scottish ports, during the Cod War over fishing rights

Last major bombing attack on the Clyde area by the Luftwaffe

Máire de Paor (née McDermott) archaeologist and arts activist, is born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal

The U-20, a German U-boat commanded by Captain Schweiger, sinks the Centurion off the south-east Irish coast

William Conor, painter, born in Belfast

Phoenix Park murders, The assassination Lord Frederick Cavendish, and T.H. Burke

Sir James Young Simpson advocate of chloroform, died.