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Gaumont cinema in Edinburgh destroyed by fire.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary is established

The Titanic is launched in Belfast, Ireland

The hull of the world’s most famous ship, the Titanic , is launched

During the Boer War, Piet de Wet captures the thirteenth battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry at Lindley. To British eyes, this mounted Battalion is the social and political show-piece of the new Volunteer Army; a company of Irish M.F.H.s known as the Iris

Helen Waddell, Irish scholar, translator and novelist, is born in Tokyo

At Grosse Isle, Canada, 40 Irish Famine immigrant ships wait to unload

Birth of Alice Stopford Green in Kells, Co. Meath. Irish historian and patriot; she is noted for proving the Irish had a rich culture before English rule. A strong supporter of the Treaty of 1921, she is nominated to the first Seanad in December 1922