Naomi mitchison, novelist and politician, born in edinburgh

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The enrolment of the Ulster Special Constabulary begins

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Kevin Barry, is hanged in Dublin

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Founding of the Gaelic Athletic Association

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Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France is published

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Bank of Scotland founded by an Act of the Scottish Parliament

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St. Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, born near Oldcastle, Co. Meath

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Henry McLeish resigned as Scotlands First Minister

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Naomi Mitchison, prolific Scottish writer, died

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