8th

Total results: 9

Victory-in-Europe Day, end of World War II in Europe

Jack Charlton, footballer and manager, born

Irish patriots, Michael Mallin, Eamonn Ceannt, Cornelius Con Colbert and Sean Heuston are executed in Kilmainham gaol

The first production of the Irish Literary Theatre, The Countess Cathleen is performed

Sir William Wheeler, surgeon, is born in Dublin

John Pitt Kennedy, civil engineer; road and railway pioneer in India, is born in Carndonagh, Co. Donegal

Scottish born pirate Captain William Kidd, tried for piracy at Londons Old Bailey

Execution of Fiach MacHugh O’Byrne