Icelandic gunboats fired live rounds at british fishing trawlers, many of them from scottish ports, during the cod war over fishing rights
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Máire de Paor (née McDermott) archaeologist and arts activist, is born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal
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Phoenix Park murders, The assassination Lord Frederick Cavendish, and T.H. Burke
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1830
William Archer, Irish naturalist and librarian, born in Magherahamlet, Co. Down. Archer
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1763
Mary Molesworth, and her daughters Melosina and Mary die in a fire at their London house
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1384
Philip de Courtenay lands at Dalkey and campaigns in the midlands and the Leinster mountains
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Jack McConnell elected First Minister of Scotland, succeeding Henry McLeish who had resigned
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