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April 13

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George Mackay Brown, poet and novelist, died.

April 13, 1996

The Stone of Destiny, stolen on Christmas Day, was returned to Westminster Abbey

April 13, 1951

Liam Cosgrave, Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach, is born

April 13, 1920

Birth of Samuel Beckett in Foxrock, Co. Dublin

April 13, 1906

The Catholic Emancipation Act receives royal assent on this date

April 13, 1829

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Young Irelander, journalist and promoter of Canadian Federation, is born

April 13, 1825

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Nationalist, writer, and Canadian politician, born in Carlingford, Co. Louth

April 13, 1825

Alexander Mitchell, civil engineer and inventor, is born in Dublin

April 13, 1780

Samuel Molyneux, former MP for the University of Dublin collapses in the British House of Commons and dies

April 13, 1728

Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies

April 13, 1722

Birth of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford-Viceroy of Ireland

April 13, 1593

Arthur I of Brittany assassinated by his uncle, John of England

April 13, 1203