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Irish Volunteers and Citizen Army seize the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin

Large supply of guns from Germany are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)

Irish novelist, historian and politician, Justin McCarthy, dies

William Joyce aka Lord Haw-Haw; born in Brooklyn, New York

Novelist R.M. Ballantyne, who wrote 90 books, the best known of which was The Coral Island, was born in Edinburgh.

Thomas Emmet, nationalist and brother of Robert Emmet, is born in Dublin

Nathaniel Hone, portrait painter, is born in Dublin

Warrant issued by the Privy Council to Sir John Hepburn to raise a regiment of 1,200 men to fight in the French service. The corps ultimately became the First Regiment of Foot, The Royal Scots.