May 18, 1798The 2nd Earl of Kingston Is Tried Amid Great Pomp by the Irish House of Lords for the Murder of Colonel Henry FitzGerald
May 18, 1825The House of Lords Rejects the Catholic Emancipation Bill Which Would Disenfranchise Irish Forty-Shilling Free-Holders and Put Clergy on State Salaries
May 18, 1896The City and Suburban Ground Now Known as Croke Park, Hosts a Soccer Match for the First Time
May 18, 1939The First Aircraft Lands at the Newly Opened Rineanna Airfield Which Is Later to Become Shannon International Airport