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First Edinburgh International Festival opened.
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RIC is disbanded to be replaced by the Garda Síochána
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Birth of Oliver St. John Gogarty, writer, and the model for the stately, plump Buck Mulligan in Joyces Ulysses
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Lord John Russells Whig administration decides not to interfere with internal or export markets for food
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Visit of George IV to Edinburgh began, orchestrated by Sir Walter Scott.
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Birth of Richard Lalor Sheil, dramatist and politician; first Catholic privy councillor, in Drumdowney, Co. Kilkenny
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Birth of Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and son of an Irishman
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William Corbet, United Irishman and soldier, is born in Ballythomas, Co. Cork
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George MacKenzie, Scottish patron of books, died.
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The Battle of Preston
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