On May 06, 1959 in Celtic History
Icelandic gunboats fired live rounds at british fishing trawlers, many of them from scottish ports, during the cod war over fishing rights

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May 1959
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William Archer, Irish naturalist and librarian, born in Magherahamlet, Co. Down. Archer
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Mary Molesworth, and her daughters Melosina and Mary die in a fire at their London house
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1384
Philip de Courtenay lands at Dalkey and campaigns in the midlands and the Leinster mountains
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