Ireland

countries: Ireland

Total results: 2747

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John Smith, politician and leader of the Labour Party, born at Dalmally, Argyll.

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Beano comic, 1st published

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Dr. Douglas Hyde inaugurated as first President of Ireland; Seán T OCeallaigh, Eamon de Valera and Erskine Childers were all installed on the same day in 1945, 1959 and 1973 respectively

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The Marquess of Bute sold half of the city of Cardiff for £20 million, at that time the biggest-ever British property deal

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Frank Patterson, tenor, is born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

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Robert and Edward Kennedy, youngest sons of the American Ambassador to London, open the children’s zoo in Regent’s Park. Children are charged sixpence to watch chimpanzees have a tea party

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Ten young men, potato-pickers from Achill Island, die when a bothy catches fire on a farm at Kirkintilloch, Scotland

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The first traffic lights in the Free State are installed at the junction of Merrion Square and Clare Street

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Birth of Donald Dewar, former Secretary of State for Scotland and First Minister in the new Scottish Parliament.

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