May 19

John Sheahan, fiddle player with the Dubliners, is born

May 19, 1939

Sir Isaac Butt invents the term Home Rule

May 19, 1870

Birth of Henry Dixon, botanist

May 19, 1869

Máire Ni Aodáin (Mary Hayden), Irish historian, is born

May 19, 1862

Standish Hayes O'Grady, scholar, is born in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick

May 19, 1832

Anna Maria O'Dell, gives birth to a stillborn child in the Marshalsea debtors prison

May 19, 1821

Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of the United Irishmen, is betrayed by Francis Magan; is arrested and is shot while being apprehended

May 19, 1798

James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson- died.

May 19, 1795

Death in Auchinleck of James Boswell, biographer of Dr Johnston.

May 19, 1795

John Forster is unanimously elected Speaker of the House of Commons, replacing Alan Brodrick

May 19, 1710

An Act by the British Parliament forbids the export of Irish wool

May 19, 1660