May 27

Aer Lingus opens routes to Bristol and London

May 27, 1936

Maiden voyage of liner Queen Mary.

May 27, 1936

Anti-Tithe Riot, Llangwm, Wales

May 27, 1887

Hanna Sheehy Skeffington is born in Co. Limerick

May 27, 1877

Wexford rebels massacre Kingsboroughs militiamen and yeomanry at Oulart

May 27, 1798

Giovanni Rinuccini, excommunicates adherents of the truce between confederates and Inchiquin

May 27, 1648

Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeats the English forces of his brother-in-law, Sir Henry Bagenal, at the Battle of Clontibret, Co. Monaghan

May 27, 1595

Cathal Crovderg O'Connor, king of Connacht and brother of Rory O'Connor, dies

May 27, 1224