Ireland

countries: Ireland

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Sir Hubert Gough, soldier and participant in Curragh mutiny of 1914, is born in Gurteen, Co. Waterford

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Birth in Dublin of John Pius Boland, nationalist politician and Irelands first Olympic gold medalist

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Birth of golf course designer Dr Alister Mackenzie; he was responsible for Augusta National and Cypress Point, among others.

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The Oceanic, a liner built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line, is launched

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Michael Davitt is sentenced to 15 years

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Choisdeailbh, Irish language folk-song collector is born

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Erskine Childers, novelist, member of the Royal Navy, and later an Irish nationalist, is born in London. He is famous for the classic spy yarn The Riddle Of The Sands. For more on his life, please click The Wild Geese

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Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec

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Birth of Eva Gore-Booth, poet, trade unionist and feminist, on the Lissadell Estate in Co. Sligo

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