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Scotlands first First Minister Donald Dewar died suddenly after a fall on the steps of his official residence in Edinburgh.

The Irish Constitution for the Free State, drafted by the Thomas Cosgrove Dáil, is adopted

Anglo-Irish negotiations open with Griffith and Collins leading the Irish delegation

Birth of writer Brian ONolan aka Myles na gCopaleen and perhaps better known as Flann OBrien

Brian O Nolan (Flann OBrien Myles na g Copaleen) - Irish writer born

The British fleet, under the command of Admiral Adam Duncan (born in Forfar in, 1731), defeated the Dutch off the village of Camperdown, Holland

Birth of James Barry, painter, in Cork

John Asgill, newly elected MP for Enniscorthy, is expelled from the Irish parliament on this date on account of a pamphlet he published in Dublin in 1698, arguing that man may pass into eternal life without dying. The pamphlet is burned by the common hang