Ireland

countries: Ireland

Total results: 2747

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Referendum on Devolution which approved the creation of a new Scottish Parliament by a substantial majority.

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Sorley MacLean, poet, died

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Stone of Destiny on which generations of Scottish kings had been crowned, returned to Scotland, 700 years after it had been removed by King Edward I of England

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George Mackay Brown, poet and novelist, died.

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Bridge to the Isle of Skye opened.

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Death of Lord Home of the Hirsel, also known as Sir Alec Douglas-Home, formerly Foreign Secretary and UK Prime Minister.

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In the opening game of their Rugby World Cup programme, Scotland defeated Ivory Coast, 89-0

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Alison Hargreave, a, 33-year-old mother of two from Spean Bridge became the first woman to climb Mount Everest solo and without oxygen

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Graham Obree, from Irvine in Ayrshire, broke the world record and became the world pursuit cycle champion over, 4,000 metres in Hamar, Norway.

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