December 07

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The six counties of Northern Ireland opt out of the Free State

Joyce Cary, author, is born in Derry

Birth in Tralee, Co. Kerry of Austin Stack, anti-Treaty nationalist

Admiral William Bligh Cornishman of Mutiny on the Bounty fame, died

Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, general and historian, is born in Celbridge, Co. Kildare

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, soldier and colonial administrator, is born in Dublin

Thirteen Apprentice Boys refuse to let a Catholic army into Derry-Londonderry

James FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Desmond is murdered at the instigation of his brother, John

St. Columcille, Irish bard and monk honored in all the Celtic lands, born

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