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Invergordon aluminium works starts production.
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Celtic Football Club won European Cup.
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The Dublin brigade of the IRA attacks and sets fire to the Customs House; 120 of its men are captured and 11 are killed
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British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule for the third time
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First issue of the weekly suffrage magazine, Irish Citizen, appears
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Oscar Slater found guilty of murder.
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Ewart Milne, poet, is born in Dublin
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John Hunt, expert on mediaeval art, is born in Limerick
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Oscar Wilde is sentenced to two years imprisonment for offences “against public decency”
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Gerald Boland, nationalist politician, is born in Manchester
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Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec
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Birth on Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, of Helen Blackburn, early leader of the movement for the emancipation of women
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Henry Montgomery, leads a secession of Non-subscribers from the General Synod
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Lord John Allen (3rd Viscount Allen), former MP for Carysfort, dies of a fever caused from cuts to his fingers inflicted by the sword of a dragoon
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First circulating library opened in Edinburgh.
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John Stuart, Earl of Bute, Britains first Scottish Prime Minister, born.
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May Eustace Sherlock, gentleman, petitions the Commons for relief from the great oppressions he lies under
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Irish Ally, Edward Bruce of Scotland, arrives in Ireland.
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Edward Bruce, brother of Robert Bruce, having been invited by some Gaelic chiefs, leads an expedition to Ireland with the aim of conquering it
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