July 27 - The "Cattle Act" restricts Irish trade with colonies as well as cattle exports to England (1663).
July 28 - Members of the Repeal Association, dedicated to the repeal of the union, split with the issue of physical force, with Young Ireland members advocating it (1846).
July 29 - Brian Merriman, Irish-language poet famous for his epic poem Cuirt an Mheadhon (The Midnight Court), dies (1851).
July 30 - Novelist John Braddock is born (1927).
July 31 - The Gaelic League is founded to revive the use of the Irish language and foster appreciation of Ireland's Celtic, as opposed to English, heritage (1893).
August 1 - The Act of Union dissolves the Irish Parliament and transfers legislative power to Westminster (1800).
August 2 - Cyclist Stephen Roach wins the Tour de France (1987).
August 3 - Roger Casement, an Easter Rising rebel, is hanged (1916).
August 4 - The Great Southern & Western Railway line between Dublin (Kingsbridge) and Carlow opens (1846).
August 5 - The Land Purchase Act further facilitates tenants' purchase of acreage from former landlords and establishes a board to purchase and redistribute acreage at a local level in the west (1891). Also, on this day in 1951, I was born in Lancaster, Ohio.
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