Thu 06 May 1999

Election for the new Scottish Parliament

Wed 06 May 1959

Icelandic gunboats fired live rounds at British fishing trawlers, many of them from Scottish ports, during the Cod War over fishing rights

Tue 06 May 1941

Last major bombing attack on the Clyde area by the Luftwaffe

Wed 06 May 1925

Máire de Paor (née McDermott) archaeologist and arts activist, is born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal

Sat 06 May 1916

The U-20, a German U-boat commanded by Captain Schweiger, sinks the Centurion off the south-east Irish coast

Tue 06 May 1884

William Conor, painter, born in Belfast

Sat 06 May 1882

Phoenix Park murders, The assassination Lord Frederick Cavendish, and T.H. Burke

Fri 06 May 1870

Sir James Young Simpson advocate of chloroform, died.

Thu 06 May 1830

William Archer, Irish naturalist and librarian, born in Magherahamlet, Co. Down. Archer

Sat 06 May 1820

Robert O’Hara Burke, explorer, born in St. Cleran’s, Co. Galway

Fri 06 May 1763

Mary Molesworth, and her daughters Melosina and Mary die in a fire at their London house

Thu 06 May 1728

Act of Parliament removes the right to vote from Catholics

Thu 06 May 1384

Philip de Courtenay lands at Dalkey and campaigns in the midlands and the Leinster mountains

Thu 06 May 1249

Reginald II assumes Manx throne.

Wed 06 May 1074

Donatus (or Dunan), the first Bishop of Dublin, dies