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EVENTS

January 21 - Dáil Éireann meets for the very first time in the Round Room of the Mansion House , Dublin . An independent Irish Republic is declared. In the first shots of the Anglo-Irish War , two RIC men are killed in Tipperary .

February 3 - Éamon De Valera , the leader of Sinn Féin , and two other prisoners escape from Lincoln Prison in England .

April 1 - Fifty-two members of Sinn Féin attend thes second meeting of Dáil Éireann . Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh is elected Ceann Comhairle and Éamon De Valera is elected Príomh Aire .

April 18 - 1,000 delegates from all over Ireland attend the Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis in Dublin . Eamon De Valera is elected President of the organisation.

April 19 - Sinn Féin proposes an Executive Council of the Irish National Alliance to challenge the right of any foreign parliament to make laws for Ireland.

May 13 - IRA volunteers, Dan Breen and Seán Treacy are injured while rescuing Seán Hogan from custody in County Limerick .

June 14 - Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown arrive in Clifden, County Galway following their 1,900 mile transatlantiic flight.

September 12 - Dáil Éireann is declared illegal. There are raids on Sinn Féin centres and Ernest Blythe is arrested.

November 9 - Labour leader James Larkin is arrested in New York . He is charged with circulating a publication advocating the forcible overthrow of the government.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

May 5 Seamus Ennis born. Irish player of uilleann pipes, singer, and folk-song collector.

SPORTS

BIRTHS

May 1 - Dan O'Herlihy , actor.

DEATHS