June 05

Referendum held on British Membership of the European Community.

June 5, 1975

Birth of Christy Brown, paraplegic painter and writer

June 5, 1932

The first sitting of the Northern Ireland Parliament takes place

June 5, 1921

Cornelius Ryan, war correspondent and author of The Longest Day, The Last Battle and A Bridge Too Far, is born in Dublin

June 5, 1920

Death of Listowel man Lord Kitchener

June 5, 1916

HMS Hampshire sank off Orkney after striking a mine. Lord Kitchener, conqueror of Sudan, was drowned.

June 5, 1916

Margaret Anne Cusack (Sister Mary Francis Clare), the Nun of Kenmare, dies in Leamington, Warwickshire, England

June 5, 1899

Alasdair Mac Cába, pro-Treaty nationalist, is born in Ballymote, Co. Sligo

June 5, 1886

Birth in Dublin of William Thomas Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State

June 5, 1880

James Connolly, Irish revolutionary hero, born in Edinburgh - Scotland.

June 5, 1868

John Couch Adams FRS, British mathematician and astronomer, born

January 5, 1819

Defeat of the rebels at New Ross, Co. Wexford

June 5, 1798

The Reverend William Steel Dickson, a Presbyterian minister and United Irishmen supporter is arrested and imprisoned without trial

June 5, 1798

An Act provides for the establishment of a Catholic seminary

June 5, 1795

Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations born Kirkcaldy.

June 5, 1723

Richard Talbot, the Earl of Tyrconnell, appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland

June 5, 1686

Eoghan Rua O'Neill, defeats Robert Munro’s Scottish army at Benburb in Co. Tyrone

June 5, 1646

An Act of the Scottish Parliament formally regulating heralds.

June 5, 1592