June 9 - The Settlement Act "for the assuming, Confirming and Settling of Lands and Estates in Ireland" is passed (1657).
June 10 - The first number of James MacKnight's Banner of Ulster is published in Belfast (1842).
June 11 - Mary Lavin, short story-writer and novelist, is born (1912).
June 12 - The Ulster Unionist Council agrees to the immediate implementation of Home Rule if six Ulster counties are temporarily excluded (1916).
June 13 - Jonathan Swift, author of the satiric masterpiece Gulliver's Travels, becomes Dean of St. Patrick's (1713).
June 14 - The royalists, loyal to Charles I, suffer a key defeat by the English Parliamentarians at Naseby (1645).
June 15 - John Alcock and Arthur Whiten Brown land their Vickers Vimy bomber in a bog near Clifden, County Galway, becoming the first men to fly across the Atlantic in one loop (1919).
June 16 - Joyce's Ulysses records the events of this day, now referred to as Bloomsday, in the Dublin lives and experiences of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly, and Stephen Dedalus (1904).
June 17 - De Valera is elected president of Eire (1959).
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