Today on Celtic History on

May 19th

Fri 19 May 1939

John Sheahan, fiddle player with the Dubliners, is born

Thu 19 May 1870

Sir Isaac Butt invents the term Home Rule

Wed 19 May 1869

Birth of Henry Dixon, botanist

Mon 19 May 1862

Máire Ni Aodáin (Mary Hayden), Irish historian, is born

Sat 19 May 1832

Standish Hayes O'Grady, scholar, is born in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick

Sat 19 May 1821

Anna Maria O'dell, the 2nd wife of William O'dell gives birth to a stillborn child in the Marshalsea debtors prison, where she had accompanied her husband

Sat 19 May 1798

Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of the United Irishmen, is betrayed by Francis Magan; is arrested and is shot while being apprehended

Tue 19 May 1795

James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson- died.

Tue 19 May 1795

Death in Auchinleck of James Boswell, biographer of Dr Johnston.

Mon 19 May 1710

John Forster is unanimously elected Speaker of the House of Commons, replacing Alan Brodrick

Wed 19 May 1660

An Act by the British Parliament forbids the export of Irish wool