History/Staire

July 1, 1690
The Battle of the Boyne

July 1, 1937
De Valera's constitution enacted.

July 5, 1828
Daniel O Connell elected MP from Co. Clare.

July 8, 1981
Joe McDonnell dies after 61 days on hunger strike.

July 9, 1972
Five people killed in west Belfast by the British army in
1972 in Springhill.

July 12, 1691
Battle of Aughrim

July 12, 1969
Protracted rioting in Belfast, trouble in Derry.

July 13, 1981
Martin Hursondies after 46 days on hunger strike.

July 13, 1969
Police baton-charge Catholics storming an Orange hall.

July 16, 2002
The Provisional IRA apologises for the deaths and
suffering of "non-combatants" caused by its campaign of violence.

July 19, 2002
Alan Lomax, folk music's foremost pioneer and
ethnomusicologist, passes away.

July 21, 1969
Irish American Neil Armstrong is the first human to walk
on the moon.

July 26, 1856
George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin.

July 27, 1782
Relief Act gives Catholics education rights

July 29, 1805
Brian Merriman, author of the epic
Cuirt an Mheadhon Oidhche (The Midnight Court)passes away.

July 31, 1893
Gaelic League founded.