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Birth of Gerry Adams

Death of Galway man Pádraic Ó Conaire, who was among the first writers to develop a new modern literature in the Irish language

Maeve Kyle, athlete and hockey player, is born in Kilkenny

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton is born at Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. He and Sir John Douglas Cockcroft were awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles

Birth of C. S. Todd Andrews, revolutionary and public servant, in Dublin

Death of Charles Stewart Parnell, champion of tenants rights and co-founder of the Land League; often called the Uncrowned King of Ireland

Grattan removed from Irish Privy Council, falsely charged with being a sworn member of United Irishmen

Owen Roe ONeill dies