July 29, 1848
Young Ireland was a political and cultural movement in the 1840s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform.
July 29, 1883
The Irish National Invincibles, usually known as the Invincibles, were a splinter group of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
July 29, 1971
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm.
July 30, 1650
Edward Parry was born in Newry, County Down, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
July 30, 1715
Birth of Nahum Tate the first Irish-born poet laureate of England.
July 30, 1761
Birth of Henry FitzGerald, diplomat, soldier and brother of Lord Edward FitzGerald
Richard Nugent, MP for Fore and still a teenager, fights a duel with a Mr.
July 30, 1862
Death of Eugene O’Curry, influential music collector
July 30, 1863
Birth of Henry Ford, son of William and Mary Ford who crossed the Atlantic from Ireland by steerage.
July 30, 1918
Provisions were included in the Scottish Education Bill to ensure adequate facilities for teaching Gaelic in Scotland.
July 30, 1927
Novelist and critic John Broderick is born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath
July 30, 1938
First edition of the long-running Beano comic was published