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Beginning of the Hunger Strike by seven Republican prisoners in the H Blocks at Long Kesh. They are later joined by three female prisoners at Armagh Prison

Birth in Dublin of Bryan Guinness, 2nd Lord Moyne; brewer and writer

Between October 24 and this date, Fenians propose a New Departure - an alliance with the Parnellites

William Smith, founder of the Boys Brigade, born.

James Macpherson Scottish translator of Ossianic poems born.

James Cook, circum-navigator of the globe, born to Scottish parents in Yorkshire.

A proclamation declares the banishment of Catholic bishops and priest and the closure of religious houses and schools under Charles IIs reign

Surrender of Limerick