November 03

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Liz McColgan won her first marathon in a record time.

Queen Elizabeth officially opened an underwater pipeline to bring the first North Sea oil ashore.

Birth in Rooskey, Co. Roscommon of Albert Reynolds, politician and businessman, Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach from 1992-1994

Tomás Ó Fiaich, cardinal, historian and Catholic Primate of All Ireland, is born in Cullyhanna, Co. Armagh

Birth of Conor Cruise OBrien, diplomat, political commentator and writer

Tomas O'Fiaich, Irish language author and Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh, is born

The Catholic University of Ireland is opened with J. H. Newman as its first rector

Potato Riots on Mann

John Mitchel, patriot and founder of the newspaper the United Irishman, born

Thomas Steele, landlord and supporter of Daniel OConnell is born in Derrymore, Co. Clare

Henry Luttrell, soldier and suspected betrayer of the Jacobites, is assassinated in Dublin

The Darien Expedition landed at Caledonia in Panama

The only session of the exclusively Protestant Irish parliament of William III and Mary ends on this date

Edmund Mortimer, 6th Earl of Ulster, holds a parliament at Dublin, which confirms the Statutes of Kilkenny

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