Highlighted Events from May

Mon 12 May 1823

Daniel O'Connell founds the Catholic Association, an organization dedicated to obtaining the franchise for Catholics

Fri 14 May 1660

Charles II is proclaimed king in Dublin, six days after London, thus ending Cromwells reign as Lord Protector

Tue 09 May 1916

Irish Patriot, Thomas Kent, is executed at Cork Detention Barracks

Tue 22 May 1849

Novelist, Maria Edgeworth, dies in Mostrim, Co. Longford. She is laid to rest in a vault at Edgeworthstown Church. The Great Famine which decimates the people she loves mars her last years. Even though in her late seventies, she worked strenuously for the