10th

Total results: 13

Sandy Lyle becomes the first Scottish (and British) golfer to win the US Masters tournament.

British Parliament proposes conscription in Ireland

Yann Ber Kalloch, a great Breton poet dies in the First World War

George William Russell (pseudonym A. E. Russell); poet, painter, writer, economist and mystic, is born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh

Campobello New Brunswick Irish-American Fenians attack Campobello Island from Eastport, Maine; they are persuaded to leave by British warships and US agents

Oliver Sheppard, sculptor, is born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone

Fr. Theobald Mathew, with the support of William Martin, a quaker, founds the total abstinence movement in Cork

Birth of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist, in Monaghan