← George Mackay Brown, poet and novelist, died.
Naomi Mitchison, prolific Scottish writer, died →- January 30, 1998
Buried in the sand at Lahinch for almost 100 years, the ship-wrecked Elizabeth McClean emerges to allow a salvage operation to take its valuable cargo. The 58-foot schooner, laden down with Liscannor stone, sank off the Clare coast in 1904, bound for Glasgow