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Eamon DeValera, Irish statesman, died

August 29, 1975

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Island of St Kilda evacuated.

August 29, 1930

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The Science and Art Museum and The National Library of Ireland open

August 29, 1890

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Birth of Jack B. Yeats, painter and author, in London

August 29, 1871

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Death of Edmund Ignatius Rice, founder of the Irish Christian Brothers Order

August 29, 1844

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Samuel Neilson, co-founder of the United Irishmen, dies

August 29, 1803

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Battle of Tranent in which a demonstration against conscription under the Militia Act was broken up by the Cinque Ports Dragoons and East Lothian Yeomanry with the death of, 12 participants.

August 29, 1797

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Birth of David La Touche, banking magnate and MP

August 29, 1729

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