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Total results: 12

The Scottish National Party gained their first electoral victory

Madeleine Smith, found not proven for murder in 1857, died peacefully in New York.

Flyweight boxing champion Benny Lynch born.

Patrick McGilligan, pro-Treaty nationalist and politician, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry

The American Civil War begins; 150,000 Irishmen will serve with the Union forces, and 40,000 with the Confederacy

The American relief ship, Jamestown, lands supplies in Cork for famine victims

Patrick Ford, journalist in the USA, fund-raiser for Irish causes, born in Galway

An Act establishes free trade in manufactured articles between Britain and Ireland