Home /calendar /may /May 25, 1895On May 25, 1895 in Celtic HistoryOscar wilde is sentenced to two years imprisonment for offences “against public decency”Share : More From This Daycalendar 1971Invergordon aluminium works starts production.May 25, 1971calendar 1967Celtic Football Club won European Cup.May 25, 1967calendar 1921The Dublin brigade of the IRA attacks and sets fire to the Customs House; 120 of its men are captured and 11 are killedMay 25, 1921calendar 1914British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule for the third timeMay 25, 1914calendar 1912First issue of the weekly suffrage magazine, Irish Citizen, appearsMay 25, 1912calendar 1909Oscar Slater found guilty of murder.May 25, 1909calendar 1903Ewart Milne, poet, is born in DublinMay 25, 1903calendar 1900John Hunt, expert on mediaeval art, is born in LimerickMay 25, 1900calendar 1885Gerald Boland, nationalist politician, is born in ManchesterMay 25, 1885calendar 1870Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, QuébecMay 25, 1870calendar 1842Birth on Valentia Island, Co. Kerry, of Helen Blackburn, early leader of the movement for the emancipation of womenMay 25, 1842calendar 1830Henry Montgomery, the leading Unitarian protagonist, leads a secession of Non-subscribers from the General Synod which establishes the Remonstrant Synod of UlsterMay 25, 1830
