July 25, 1948
Bread, which was never rationed during wartime, was put on the ration in July 1948.
July 25, 1980
Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
July 25th
Guinness St. James Gate Since mediaeval times, Dubliners held an annual drinking festival in the Saint’s honor.
July 26, 1575
The Rathlin Island massacre took place on Rathlin Island, off the coast of Ireland on 26 July 1575, when more than 600 Scots and Irish were killed.
July 26, 1739
George Clinton (July 26, 1739 – April 20, 1812) was an American soldier and statesman, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
July 26, 1782
John Field (26 July 1782 – 23 January 1837), was an Irish pianist, composer, and teacher.
July 26, 1813
On 26 July 1813 in Garvagh, a settlement in County Londonderry about nine miles south of Coleraine.
July 26, 1856
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
July 26, 1869
The Irish Church Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 42) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which separated the Church of Ireland from the Church of England and disestablished the former, a …
July 26, 1914
Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed for …
July 26, 1927
Danny La Rue, OBE (born Daniel Patrick Carroll, 26 July 1927 – 31 May 2009) was an Irish singer and entertainer, best known for his on-stage drag persona.
July 27, 1602
Donnell Ballagh O’Cahan (died 1627) was an Irish landowner in Ulster.