Events for May 22

May 22, 1932

Death of Augusta Persse, better known as Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre director; also a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre

May 22, 1849

Novelist, Maria Edgeworth, dies in Mostrim, Co. Longford. She is laid to rest in a vault at Edgeworthstown Church. The Great Famine which decimates the people she loves mars her last years. Even though in her late seventies, she worked strenuously for the

May 22, 1870

Birth of Eva Gore-Booth, poet, trade unionist and feminist, on the Lissadell Estate in Co. Sligo

May 22, 1879

Jack White, journalist and author, is born in Cork

Captain James Robert “Jack” White, DSO (1879–1946) was an Irish republican and libertarian socialist.