June 05

June 05, 1975

Referendum held on British Membership of the European Community.

June 05, 1932

Birth of Christy Brown, paraplegic painter and writer

June 05, 1921

The first sitting of the Northern Ireland Parliament takes place

June 05, 1920

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

June 05, 1916

Death of Listowel man Lord Kitchener

June 05, 1916

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

June 05, 1899

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

June 05, 1886

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

June 05, 1880

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

June 05, 1868

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

June 05, 1819

John Couch Adams FRS, British mathematician and astronomer, born

June 05, 1798

Defeat of the rebels at New Ross, Co. Wexford

June 05, 1798

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

June 05, 1795

An Act provides for the establishment of a Catholic seminary

June 05, 1723

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

June 05, 1686

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

June 05, 1646

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

June 05, 1592

An Act of the Scottish Parliament formally regulating heralds.