17th

Total results: 13

The British Government recognizes the Republic of Ireland

The Marquess of Bute sold half of the city of Cardiff for £20 million, at that time the biggest-ever British property deal

A new military viceroy, General French, acts on mistaken information that Sinn Féin is implicated in a pro-German plot and has most of the leaders arrested

Maureen O'Sullivan Boyle, born in Roscommon

Birth of Vincent Barry, organic chemist, in Cork

Charles Stewart Parnell is elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party

David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer, died.

Shan Bullock, novelist, is born in Crom, Co. Fermanagh