On May 09, 1650 in Celtic History

The battle of clonmel begins with the first of two assaults

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Mon 09 May 1650

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    Éamon de Valera is elected Taoiseach

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    John McDermott, Lord Justice of Appeal for Northern Ireland, is born

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    John MacLean, socialist revolutionary, tried in the High Court for sedition

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    Irish Patriot, Thomas Kent, is executed at Cork Detention Barracks

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    Austin Clarke, considered to be the greatest poet of his generation after Yeats, is born

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    The Dublin International Exhibition opens in Earlsfort Terrace

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    Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish playwright and novelist and author of Peter Pan born

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    Charles Kickham, Fenian, novelist, and author of Knocknagow, is born in Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary

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    Charles Kickham, Fenian, novelist, and author of Knocknagow, is born in Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary

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    Birth in Dublin of John Brougham, actor and dramatist

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