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The Emergency Powers Act provides for the censorship of press messages to places outside the Free State
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William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, dies
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Jimmy Shand, Scottish country dance band leader, born
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David Mary Tidmarsh , WWI Ace, born in Limerick
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George Fitzmaurice, Irish Renaissance playwright, is born
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Patrick Malley is killed by his son William Malley at Calla
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Louis Brennan, inventor, is born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo
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William Burke, murderer and body snatcher of Burke and Hare fame, executed
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The Iberno-Celtic Society is founded to preserve and publish the best ancient Irish literature
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Sir Robert McClure, polar explorer and discoverer of the North-West Passage, born in Co. Wexford
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By charter, the Irish Academy becomes the Royal Irish Academy
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Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene, is born in Co. Antrim
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The City of London and the Irish Society of London are found guilty of mismanagement and neglect
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The crown and the Irish Society of London, agree to carry out the plantation of Derry, Coleraine and part of Tyrone
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