May 25

May 25, 1971

Invergordon aluminium works starts production.

May 25, 1967

Celtic Football Club won European Cup.

May 25, 1921

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, 1914

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

May 25, 1912

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

May 25, 1909

Oscar Slater found guilty of murder.

May 25, 1903

Ewart Milne, poet, is born in Dublin

May 25, 1900

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

May 25, 1895

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

May 25, 1885

Gerald Boland, nationalist politician, is born in Manchester

May 25, 1870

Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec

May 25, 1842

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

May 25, 1830

Henry Montgomery, leads a secession of Non-subscribers from the General Synod

May 25, 1745

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, 1726

First circulating library opened in Edinburgh.

May 25, 1713

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

May 25, 1705

May Eustace Sherlock, gentleman, petitions the Commons for relief from the great oppressions he lies under

May 25, 1315

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

May 25, 1315

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