Today on Celtic History on

May 3rd

Mon 03 May 1926

General Strike began at midnight, the first in British history

Tue 03 May 1921

IRA troops under Tom Maguire fight off 600 English troops in Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo

Wed 03 May 1916

Patrick Pearse, Thomas Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh executed by firing squad in Kilmainham jail

Mon 03 May 1915

Walter Macken, novelist, born in Galway

Sun 03 May 1903

Bing Crosby, descendant of Irish immigrants, is born in Tacoma, Washington

Tue 03 May 1814

Welsh Thomas Coke, a Methodist cleric and missionary, died

Tue 03 May 1785

The Irish Academy, later to become the Royal Irish Academy, meets for the first time

Thu 03 May 1714

Sir Wentworth Harman, MP for Lanesborough, dies

Fri 03 May 1557

John Knox began the Reformation in Scotland.