November 01

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Samhain - Celtic New Year

Demobilisation of the Irish Army begins

Private James Daly, of the Connaught Rangers, is last member to be executed for mutiny

The enrolment of the Ulster Special Constabulary begins

Kevin Barry, is hanged in Dublin

Naomi Mitchison, Novelist and politician, born in Edinburgh

Founding of the Gaelic Athletic Association

John Joly, geologist and physicist, is born in Co. Offaly

Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College, Dublin, born

Sir Benjamin Guinness, owner of the Guinness brewery from 1855, is born in Dublin

Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France is published

Bank of Scotland founded by an Act of the Scottish Parliament

St. Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, born near Oldcastle, Co. Meath

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