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The Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat off the Old Head of Kinsale, Co. Cork with the loss of more than 1,100 lives

Henry Gray Graham, author of Social Life of Scotland in the 18th Century, died

James Naysmith, engineer and inventor of steam hammer, died

John MacBride, revolutionary, is born in Westport, Co. Mayo

Charles Owen O'Conor, politician, is born in Dublin

Anthony Tanner, perpetual curate for Holmpatrick, is murdered near Rush, Co. Dublin

James Cotter is executed for high treason in supporting the Jacobite cause

John Medcalf, previously dismissed as Church of Ireland curate of Powerscourt for conducting clandestine marriages, is excommunicated