May

Charles Williams, war correspondent, is born in Coleraine, Co. Derry-Londonderry

May 04, 1838

Edward Daly, Michael OHanrahan, William Pearse & Joseph Mary Plunkett are executed by firing squad in Kilmainham jail

May 04, 1916

King Charles I surrenders to Lord Leven and was later passed to the Parliamentary forces.

May 05, 1646

James Taylor who developed the steamboat was born.

May 05, 1758

House of Commons rejects Grattans Catholic relief bill

May 05, 1795

Birth in Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford of Sir Henry Wilson, soldier; chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1918 to 1922; establishes British Intelligence Cairo Gang in Dublin

May 05, 1864

Richard Downey (youngest ever Catholic archbishop in 1928, who reduces his weight from 18 stone to 9 stone in the 1930s) is born in Kilkenny

May 05, 1881

Irish patriot and a leader of the 1916 Easter Uprising, John MacBride, is executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol

May 05, 1916

Bobby Sands dies at Long Kesh prison on the 66th day of his hunger strike

May 05, 1977

Robert Gerard Sands, commonly known as Bobby Sands (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was an Irish republican and a former MP who died on hunger strike in the prison officially called HM Prison Maze but …

Donatus (or Dunan), the first Bishop of Dublin, dies

May 06, 1074

Dúnán (died 6 May 1074) was the first bishop of Dublin, appointed under Dublin’s Hiberno-Norse kings.

Reginald II assumes Manx throne.

May 06, 1249

King Harald of the Isle of Man was the son of his predecessor, King Olaf II of the Isle of Man.

Philip de Courtenay lands at Dalkey and campaigns in the midlands and the Leinster mountains

May 06, 1384