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Frank Patterson, tenor, is born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

John Joe Barry, athlete who is known as the Ballincurry Hare, is born

Birth of Philip Berrigan - militant priest, Virginia, Minn

Birth of Brian O’Nolan, aka Flann O’Brien and Myles na gCopaleen in Strabane, Co. Tyrone

New York Gaelic Society is formed

Leslie Montgomery, comic writer under the pseudonym Lynn C. Doyle, is born in in Downpatrick, Co. Down

Balloon flight by Italian aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi from Heriots School, Edinburgh to Ceres in Fife.

Parliament meets at the new parliament house in College Green for the first time