October 10

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Labour won the General Election with an overall majority of three seats and Harold Wilson became Prime Minister.

Irish Transvaal Committee formed to aid Boers against the English.

Eoin O Grownley, Irish language scholar, dies

Magee College is opened as a combined arts and Presbyterian theological college in Derry-Londonderry

Birth in Templemore, Co. Tipperary of Charles Stanley Monck, the first Governor General of Canada

Writer and geologist Hugh Miller born on the Black Isle, Cromarty.

The Edinburgh Review first published.

Birth in Co. Tipperary of Fr. Theobald Matthew, “The Apostle of Temperance” and campaigner against alcohol

During his visit to Ireland, Benjamin Franklin attends a meeting of the House of Commons on this date

The Linen Board meets for the first time

Patrick, Bishop of Dublin, dies in a shipwreck

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