July 10 - Kevin O'Higgins, the Irish Free State minister for justice, is assassinated (1927).
July 11 - The Censorship Act lifts the ban on books that had been prohibited for twelve years (1967).
July 12 - The Battle of Aughrim, the last effort of James II's Jacobites against the Williamites, is fought (1691).
July 13 - The Dublin Harp Society is founded (1809).
July 14 - Rioting breaks in Derry and Dungiven, resulting in the first death related to the Northern Ireland disturbances (1969).
July 15 - Poet Joseph Campbell is born (1879).
July 16 - The Censorship of Publications Act is passed (1929).
July 17 - The Abbey Theatre is destroyed by fire (1951).
July 18 - After having been in prison for unlawful assembly and breach of peace, the "anti-popery" Reverend Ian Paisley is elected to Westminster (1970).
July 19 - A survey of six Ulster counties is commissioned (1608).
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