today in celtic history

Tue 25 May 1971

Invergordon aluminium works starts production.

Thu 25 May 1967

Celtic Football Club won European Cup.

Wed 25 May 1921

The Dublin brigade of the IRA attacks and sets fire to the Customs House; 120 of its men are captured and 11 are killed

Mon 25 May 1914

British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule for the third time

Sat 25 May 1912

First issue of the weekly suffrage magazine, Irish Citizen, appears

Tue 25 May 1909

Oscar Slater found guilty of murder.

Mon 25 May 1903

Ewart Milne, poet, is born in Dublin

Fri 25 May 1900

John Hunt, expert on mediaeval art, is born in Limerick

Sat 25 May 1895

Oscar Wilde is sentenced to two years imprisonment for offences “against public decency”

Mon 25 May 1885

Gerald Boland, nationalist politician, is born in Manchester

Wed 25 May 1870

Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec

Wed 25 May 1842

Birth on Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, of Helen Blackburn, early leader of the movement for the emancipation of women

Tue 25 May 1830

Henry Montgomery, the leading Unitarian protagonist, leads a secession of Non-subscribers from the General Synod which establishes the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster

Tue 25 May 1745

Lord John Allen (3rd Viscount Allen), former MP for Carysfort, dies of a fever caused from cuts to his fingers inflicted by the sword of a dragoon

Sat 25 May 1726

First circulating library opened in Edinburgh.

Thu 25 May 1713

John Stuart, Earl of Bute, Britains first Scottish Prime Minister, born.

Mon 25 May 1705

On this date, May Eustace Sherlock, gentleman, petitions the Commons for relief from the great oppressions he lies under, by the undue practices and power of Maurice Annesley, a Justice of the Peace. Annesley is an MP. The ensuing complicated legal case

Sat 25 May 1315

Irish Ally, Edward Bruce of Scotland, arrives in Ireland.