10th

Total results: 11

Labour won the General Election with an overall majority of three seats and Harold Wilson became Prime Minister.

Irish Transvaal Committee formed to aid Boers against the English.

Eoin O Grownley, Irish language scholar, dies

Magee College is opened as a combined arts and Presbyterian theological college in Derry-Londonderry

Birth in Templemore, Co. Tipperary of Charles Stanley Monck, the first Governor General of Canada

Writer and geologist Hugh Miller born on the Black Isle, Cromarty.

The Edinburgh Review first published to erect a higher standard of merit, and secure a bolder and purer taste in literature, and to apply philosophical principles and the maxims of truth and humanity to politics.

Birth in Co. Tipperary of Fr. Theobald Matthew, “The Apostle of Temperance” and campaigner against alcohol