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December 14

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1921 Dáil Éireann met to debate the Treaty.
1966 Walt Disney (65), film producer and pioneer of film animation, died of lung cancer.
1918 General election (to 28/12). Lloyd George returned as head of a coalition government. Sinn Féin secured 73 of Ireland’s 105 seats.
1911 The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his five-man team, using dog sleds, became the first to reach the South Pole, 35 days ahead of their British rivals, led by Captain Scott.
1831 In Carrickshock, Co. Kilkenny, a large crowd clashed with armed police guarding a hired agent delivering summonses to tithe defaulters. Seventeen died, including thirteen policemen.
1955 The Republic of Ireland was admitted to the United Nations.

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2011 The last British troops pulled out of South Armagh. During the period 1970–97, the IRA killed 165 members of the British security forces in the area.
1870 (Robert) Erskine Childers, Sinn Féin politician and author of The riddle of the sands (1903), born in London but raised at the maternal home, Glendalough House, Co. Wicklow, along with his cousin, Robert Childers Barton (1881–1975)
1970 The Catholic hierarchy lifted the ban on Catholics attending Trinity College, Dublin.
1919 William Martin Murphy (75), founder of Independent Newspapers and leader of the Employers’ Federation during the lockout of 1913–14, died.
1970 The Irish Catholic hierarchy lifted its ban on Catholics attending Trinity College, Dublin.
1876 The Battle of Little Big Horn, Montana, USA. Of Custer’s 604-strong 7th Cavalry, some 128 were of Irish birth, representing 29 of the 32 counties. Half of the 215 men who died with him that day were Irish.