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  1879 – Poet, Joseph Campbell, is born in Belfast. He is famous for the English words he wrote to the song My Lagan Love.
  1919 – Birth of, author and philosopher, Iris Murdoch in Dublin. Best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.