May

Clocks and watches go forward one hour as the Daylight Saving Act (Summer Time) is introduced

May 21, 1916

Dennis Day, of Irish parents, is born in New York, NY

May 21, 1917

James Plunkett, pseudonym of James Plunkett Kelly; novelist, is born in Dublin

May 21, 1920

TSB Bank Scotland (now Lloyds TSB Scotland) formed

May 21, 1983

Sir Conan Doyle, Scottish author - born

May 22, 1859

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation …

King James VI introduced the title baronet for the first time. This is the lowest hereditary titled order.

May 22, 1611

Michael Doheny, poet and Young Irelander, is born near Fethard, Co. Tipperary

May 22, 1805

Novelist, Maria Edgeworth, dies in Mostrim, Co. Longford. She is laid to rest in a vault at Edgeworthstown Church. The Great Famine which decimates the people she loves mars her last years. Even though in her late seventies, she worked strenuously for the

May 22, 1849

Birth in Edinburgh of Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was the eldest son of 10 siblings born to Irish parents Charles Doyle and Mary Foley

May 22, 1859

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, born of Irish parents in Edinburgh.

May 22, 1859

Birth of Eva Gore-Booth, poet, trade unionist and feminist, on the Lissadell Estate in Co. Sligo

May 22, 1870

Jack White, journalist and author, is born in Cork

May 22, 1879

Captain James Robert “Jack” White, DSO (1879–1946) was an Irish republican and libertarian socialist.