Éamon de valera is elected taoiseach

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Viscount Cunningham, British admiral issued his command Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass

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John McDermott, Lord Justice of Appeal for Northern Ireland, is born

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John MacLean, socialist revolutionary, tried in the High Court for sedition

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calendar 1916

Irish Patriot, Thomas Kent, is executed at Cork Detention Barracks

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Austin Clarke, considered to be the greatest poet of his generation after Yeats, is born

May 09, 1896

calendar 1865

The Dublin International Exhibition opens in Earlsfort Terrace

May 09, 1865

calendar 1860

Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish playwright and novelist and author of Peter Pan born

May 09, 1860

calendar 1828

Charles Kickham, Fenian, novelist, and author of Knocknagow, is born in Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary

May 09, 1828

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Charles Kickham, Fenian, novelist, and author of Knocknagow, is born in Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary

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Birth in Dublin of John Brougham, actor and dramatist

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Thomas Wyatt, architect, is born in Loughlin House, Co. Roscommon

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