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June 05

June 05

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Referendum held on British Membership of the European Community.

Birth of Christy Brown, paraplegic painter and writer

The first sitting of the Northern Ireland Parliament takes place

Cornelius Ryan, war correspondent and author of The Longest Day, The Last Battle and A Bridge Too Far, is born in Dublin

Death of Listowel man Lord Kitchener

HMS Hampshire sank off Orkney after striking a mine. Lord Kitchener, conqueror of Sudan, was drowned.

Margaret Anne Cusack (Sister Mary Francis Clare), the Nun of Kenmare, dies in Leamington, Warwickshire, England

Alasdair Mac Cába, pro-Treaty nationalist, is born in Ballymote, Co. Sligo

Birth in Dublin of William Thomas Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State

James Connolly, Irish revolutionary hero, born in Edinburgh - Scotland.

John Couch Adams FRS, British mathematician and astronomer, born

Defeat of the rebels at New Ross, Co. Wexford

The Reverend William Steel Dickson, a Presbyterian minister and United Irishmen supporter is arrested and imprisoned without trial

An Act provides for the establishment of a Catholic seminary

Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations born Kirkcaldy.

Richard Talbot, the Earl of Tyrconnell, appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland

Eoghan Rua O'Neill, defeats Robert Munro’s Scottish army at Benburb in Co. Tyrone

An Act of the Scottish Parliament formally regulating heralds.

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