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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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The Galway Gaelic Theatre, opens with Micheál Mac Liammóirs production of Diarmuid agus Gráinne
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Birth of James Molyneaux, Ulster Unionist Party leader
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Birth of Niall Ó'Dónaill, Irish-language scholar and lexicographer, in the Rosses, Co. Donegal
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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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African explorer William Blake born.
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Humbert appears outside Castlebar.
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First balloon ascent in Britain by James Tytler, Edinburgh.
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The second Irish parliament of William III is called in Dublin; Robert Rochfort is unanimously elected Speaker
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