July 2 - The Industrial Development Act is passed to encourage an influx of foreign capital (1958).
July 3 - Bord Failte (The Irish Tourist Board) is founded (1952).
July 4 - James II flees to France for assistance after his defeat by William of Orange (1690).
July 5 - The Board of Trinity College decrees the establishment of a Chair of Irish (1838). Thomas Edward Joyce was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (1921).
July 6 - Ciann na Poblachta, a radical new republican party led by Sean MacBride, is founded (1946).
July 7 - Richard Sheridan, playwright, politician, and author of The Rivals and other social comedies, dies (1816).
July 8 - The House of Lords enacts the Government of Ireland Bill excluding all Ulster permanently from its stipulations (1914).
July 9 - A truce is reached between the IRA and the British Army (1921).
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