August 17

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First Edinburgh International Festival opened.

RIC is disbanded to be replaced by the Garda Síochána

Birth of Oliver St. John Gogarty, writer, and the model for the stately, plump Buck Mulligan in Joyces Ulysses

Lord John Russells Whig administration decides not to interfere with internal or export markets for food

Visit of George IV to Edinburgh began, orchestrated by Sir Walter Scott.

Birth of Richard Lalor Sheil, dramatist and politician; first Catholic privy councillor, in Drumdowney, Co. Kilkenny

Birth of Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and son of an Irishman

William Corbet, United Irishman and soldier, is born in Ballythomas, Co. Cork

George MacKenzie, Scottish patron of books, died.

The Battle of Preston

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