Ireland

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The floral clock in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, began operation, driven by clockwork and with only an hour hand. But it was the first of its kind in the world.

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Frank OConnor, (pseudonym of Michael ODonovan), short-story writer and author of poetic translations from Irish is born in Cork

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Padraic Pearse arrives in Ros Muc, County Galway and takes up residence at his cottage in Inbhear

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The Land Purchase Act (Wyndham Act) is enacted and allows for entire estates to be purchased by the occupying tenantry, subsidized by the state

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Charles Gavan Duffy, Young Irelander, is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

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Edward VII and Queen Alexandra visit Ireland

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An elephant named Sita kills her keeper tending her sore foot in Dublin Zoo

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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton is born at Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. He and Sir John Douglas Cockcroft were awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles

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