May

At Grosse Isle, Canada, 40 Irish Famine immigrant ships wait to unload

May 31, 1848

During the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-1849), a mass exodus of Irish people fled to North America in search of a better life.

Helen Waddell, Irish scholar, translator and novelist, is born in Tokyo

May 31, 1889

During the Boer War, Piet de Wet captures the thirteenth battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry at Lindley. To British eyes, this mounted Battalion is the social and political show-piece of the new Volunteer Army; a company of Irish M.F.H.s known as the Iris

May 31, 1900

The Titanic is launched in Belfast, Ireland

May 31, 1911

Titanic was launched at 12:15 pm on 31 May 1911 in the presence of Lord Pirrie, J.

The hull of the world’s most famous ship, the Titanic , is launched

May 31, 1911

The Royal Ulster Constabulary is established

May 31, 1922

The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was name of the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001.

Gaumont cinema in Edinburgh destroyed by fire.

May 31, 1962