September 29

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Stone of Destiny, which Scottish kings had been crowned, returned to Scotland

John Cobb killed when his boat crashed while attemptting a world water-speed record on Loch Ness

George Bernard Shaw refuses a peerage

The last active Fenian, John Devoy, dies

Birth of film star Greer Garson in Co. Down

Francis Llewellyn Harrison, musicologist, is born in Dublin

Fenian Thomas Clarke is released from Portland Prison

Birth in Kinvara, Co. Galway of Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the song, Galway Bay

Michael Mulhall, publisher and statistician, is born in Dublin

Charles Cornwallis Chesney, professor of military history, is born in Kilkeel, Co. Down

Tandy and other Irish political prisoners in Hamburg are handed over to British authorities

Birth in Dublin of Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy

Sir Henry Cavendish, politician and master of shorthand, who recorded parliamentary debates, born

Count Peter Lacy, soldier, governor of Livonia (Latvia) and field-marshal in the Russian army, is born in Killeedy, Co. Limerick

Charter granted to Sir William Alexander of Menstrie to colonize the Baronetcy of Nova Scotia.

Rory O'Donnell kisses the kings hand and is created Earl of Tyrconnell

Charles of Blois dies in the Battle of Auray

A proposal for the invasion of Ireland by Henry II is discussed

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