John Edward Jones (2 May 1806 #Dublin -25 July 1862). Civil engineer (bridge at Waterford, award-winning London sewage plans) & sculptor (e.g. portrait busts Queen Victoria & Albert)! Exhibited Royal Academy 1854-62! 🪦Mount Jerome dib.ie/biography/jone… nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/results?Maker=…)

Basil Blackshaw (20 July 1932 #Glengormley #Antrim -2 May 2016). Raised #Lisburn .👨‍🎨 Aosdána especially horses, rural, portraits!👨‍🎓 Methody Collegians Belfast School of Art, Paris! Associate/Academician Royal Ulster Academy! Studio by Lough Neagh dib.ie/biography/blac… whytes.ie/artist/basil-b…

Hon Violet Albina Gibson (31 Aug 1876 #Dublin -2 May 1956). Several attempts made to assassinate Benito Mussolini! Only Violet came close; bullet grazed his nose! Spend rest of life in mental asylum in Northampton. 🪦Northampton dib.ie/biography/gibs… youtube.com/watch?v=KORbJD…

#Otd 1928: 70th US Congress authorised President Calvin Coolidge, to confer US Distinguished Flying Cross on Bremen's crew. Had made 1st transatlantic flight from East to West! 📷Baron Günther von Hünefeld, Irishman Commandant James Fitzmaurice & Captain Hermann Köhl. 🛩️

Patrick Hillery (2 May 1923 Miltown Malbay #Clare -12 April 2008 #Dublin ).👨‍🎓 Rockwell College UCD Medicine RCSI. GP in hometown then Fianna Fáil TD. Several positions inc 1st European Commissioner. 6th President Ireland 1976-'90. 🪦St Fintan's, Sutton. dib.ie/biography/hill…

27 April, 1/2 May, 31 Oct: St Ultan (d 657). Irish. In East Anglia founded monastery at site Burgh Castle with brothers Ss Foíllán/Fursa. Then #Fosses -la-Ville, #Belgium with St Foíllán, St Itta & her daughter St Gertrude of Nivelles. Taught psalmody. d. bandits in Sonian Forest.

2 May: Ss Áedán mac Cuansae, Énán 'the perfect man, the searched for', & 'holy' Colmán. Quotes from MartG. Little-known saints in medieval Irish martyrologies. Not known when or where they lived. 📷©Pikist