May

IRA troops under Tom Maguire fight off 600 English troops in Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo

May 03, 1921

General Strike began at midnight, the first in British history

May 03, 1926

Wars of the Roses, The Battle of Tewkesbury, Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales

May 04, 1471

Marquis of Montrose victorious at Battle of Auldearn

May 04, 1645

The Battle of Auldearn, an engagement of the Scottish Civil War, took place on May 09, 1645, near the village of Auldearn in Nairnshire.

General George Monk proclaimed the Protectorate at Mercat Cross.

May 04, 1658

According to Jonathan Swifts book, Gullivers Travels, it was on this day that Lemuel Gulliver sets sail on board the Antelope from Bristol

May 04, 1699

Joseph Deane, Justice of Assize for Munster and MP for Co. Dublin, dies

May 04, 1715

Art Ó Laoghaire, is killed by soldiers near Millstreet, Co. Cork

May 04, 1773

Thomas Burton (former MP for Ennis) met with the melancholy accident of being overturned in his chaise, by which he was killed on the spot

May 04, 1773

Second and third Catholic Relief Acts (4 May, 27 July) allow Catholics to own land outside parliamentary boroughs, to be teachers, and to act as guardians

May 04, 1782

Acts establish the Bank of Ireland, and validates marriages by Presbyterian ministers

May 04, 1782

The Ancient Order of Hibernians in America is founded in New York City

May 04, 1836