may 25th

Total results: 19

History

Invergordon aluminium works starts production.

May 25, 1971

History

Celtic Football Club won European Cup.

May 25, 1967

History

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

May 25, 1921

History

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

May 25, 1914

History

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

May 25, 1912

History

Oscar Slater found guilty of murder.

May 25, 1909

History

Ewart Milne, poet, is born in Dublin

May 25, 1903

History

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

May 25, 1900

History

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

May 25, 1895

History

Gerald Boland, nationalist politician, is born in Manchester

May 25, 1885

History

Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec

May 25, 1870

History

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

May 25, 1842

History

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

May 25, 1830

History

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

May 25, 1745

History

First circulating library opened in Edinburgh.

May 25, 1726

History

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

May 25, 1713

History

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

May 25, 1705

History

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

May 25, 1315

History

Edward Bruce, brother of Robert Bruce, having been invited by some Gaelic chiefs, leads an expedition to Ireland with the aim of conquering it

May 25, 1315