May

Timothy Michael Healy, Irish politicians, born in Bantry, Co. Cork

May 17, 1855

Shan Bullock, novelist, is born in Crom, Co. Fermanagh

May 17, 1865

David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer, died.

May 17, 1870

Charles Stewart Parnell is elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party

May 17, 1880

Birth of Vincent Barry, organic chemist, in Cork

May 17, 1908

Maureen O'Sullivan Boyle, born in Roscommon

May 17, 1911

A new military viceroy, General French, acts on mistaken information that Sinn Féin is implicated in a pro-German plot and has most of the leaders arrested

May 17, 1917

The Marquess of Bute sold half of the city of Cardiff for £20 million, at that time the biggest-ever British property deal

May 17, 1938

The British Government recognizes the Republic of Ireland

May 17, 1949

Robert the Bruce lands on Isle of Mann to wrest it from English Rule.

May 18, 1313

Robert I, (Roibert a Briuis in medieval Gaelic, Raibeart Bruis in modern Scottish Gaelic and Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys in Norman French), usually known in modern English today as Robert the …

John de Stanley is told that he is to be replaced as lieutenant by Thomas of Lancaster

May 18, 1401

James Is Irish parliament opens in Dublin

May 18, 1613