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1. The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Kinsale, County Cork.
2. Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins is killed in an ambush in County Cork.
3. Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to hold the post of President of Ireland.
4. Nelson's Pillar in Sackville Street, Dublin, is blown up by Irish republicans.
5. Ireland's flag carrier, Aer Lingus, is founded.
6. Ireland becomes a member of the United Nations.
7. The republican political party Sinn Fein is founded.
8. A hunger strike results in the deaths of ten IRA prisoners at the Maze Prison.
9. The Republic of Ireland formally leaves the British Commonwealth.
10. The Bloody Sunday massacre resulted in the deaths of 14 civilians in Derry.
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