This Day the 2nd of May in Irish History.
In the year: 1884
Birth of William Casey, dramatist and Times editor
In the year: 1982
The Irish government affirms its neutrality in the Falklands conflict between the UK and Argentina, and opposes EEC sanctions against Argentina
In the year: 2001
Sinn FĂ©in's Martin McGuinness confirms publicly for the first time that he was the IRA's second-in-command in Derry on Bloody Sunday. The admission prompts a swift call from the Ulster Unionists for Sinn FĂ©in President Gerry Adams to come clean about his IRA past
In the year: 2003
The Rolling Stones set a new Irish box office record when more than 16,000 tickets for their Dublin concerts sell within two minutes.
In the year: 1882
Charles Stewart Parnell is released under the terms of the "Kilmainham Treaty"; writing off the debts of tenants in arrears. A landmark in the land agitation movement (and Parnell's career).
