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EVENTS

January 18 - Sinn Féin decides to contest all 12 constituencies in the next Westminster election.

March 15 - Up to 10,000 civil servants march down O'Connell Street , Dublin demanding a just wage.

March 16 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. asks the American Congress to support a United Ireland .

April 27 - Maud Gonne MacBride dies at her home in Dublin aged 88.

June 3 - 500 unemployed men march at Kildare Street demanding employment not dole.

July 6 - 1,000 unemployed people sit on O'Connell Bridge for 15 minutes in protest.

August 2 - Murlough Bay in the Antrim Glens is chosen as the future grave of Roger Casement . An Taoiseach Eamon De Valera calls for the return of his remains.

August 29 - Kilmainham Gaol is to be preserved as a national monument.

September 21 - The Irish Ploughing Team leaves Dublin for the World Ploughing Championships in Canada .

October 28 - Three of Dáil Éireann 's Independent TDs become members of Fianna Fáil .

December 18 - The Censorship Board bans almost 100 publications on the grounds that they are indecent or obscene.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

SPORTS

BIRTHS

March 1 - Richard Bruton , Deputy-Leader of Fine Gael and former Cabinet Minister.

March 11 - Mary Harney , current Tánaiste and leader of the Progressive Democrats .

May 16 - Pierce Brosnan , actor.

May 30 - Colm Meaney , actor.

July 29 - Frank McGuinness , playwright and poet.

DEATHS