May 07

The Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat off the Old Head of Kinsale, Co. Cork with the loss of more than 1,100 lives

Henry Gray Graham, author of Social Life of Scotland in the 18th Century, died

James Naysmith, engineer and inventor of steam hammer, died

John MacBride, revolutionary, is born in Westport, Co. Mayo

Charles Owen O'Conor, politician, is born in Dublin

Anthony Tanner, perpetual curate for Holmpatrick, is murdered near Rush, Co. Dublin

James Cotter is executed for high treason in supporting the Jacobite cause

John Medcalf, previously dismissed as Church of Ireland curate of Powerscourt for conducting clandestine marriages, is excommunicated

James II arrives from exile in France and addresses the Irish Parliament

Earl of Hereford invaded Scotland on behalf of Henry VIII

The Rough Wooing refers to a time when England advanced her territorial ambitions through a proposed marriage between the young Mary, Queen of Scotland, and Edward, the English Prince of Wales, son of Henry VIII.