August 13 - The Health Act extends the powers of county councils and provides maternity care (1947).August 14 - Nathaniel Hone, painter and member of the Royal Academy at the time of its founding in 1768, dies (1784).
August 15 - Benedict Kiely, novelist, short story-writer, and critic, is born (1919).
August 16 - The Intermediate Education Act grants female students the right to participate in public examinations and to enter into careers and professions (1878).
August 17 - Referring to the famine, Prime Minister Lord John Russell tells the House of Commons that he does not propose to interfere with the methods by which Indian corn and other grains are brought into Ireland (1846).
August 18 - John Hume and Ivan Cooper, Social Democratic and Labour Party MP's, are arrested in Derry following their demonstrations against the policies of Faulkner's government (1971).
August 19 -An act "for the improvement of the navigation of the River Shannon" is passed (1839).
August 20 - The Irish Republican Brotherhood Supreme Council withdraws its support from the Home Rule movement (1876).
August 21 - The Irish Women's Suffrage Federation is formed (1911).
August 22 - Michael Collins, member of Sinn Fein and signer of the controversial peace treaty that brought the Irish Free State into existence, is assassinated by anti-Treaty members of Sinn Fein during the Civil War (1922).
August 23 - The Land Act gives courts the power to revise and fix rents.
August 24 - The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association organizes a march from Coalsisland to Dungannon (1968).
August 25 - Novelist Brian Moore, best known for his novel The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, is born (1921).
August 26 - Five Dublin children receive the first recorded smallpox inoculations in Ireland (1725).
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