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 Today in Irish History
Sunday, July 31, 1661 |
The Act of Settlement confirms some adventurers' landowning rights but allows claims from 'innocents' and royalist supporters |
Sunday, July 31, 1689 |
The Enniskillen Protestants defeat Jacobite forces at Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh |
Sunday, July 31, 1689 |
Defenders of Enniskillen defeat Jacobite force at Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh. |
Sunday, July 31, 1689 |
Robert Lundy, Governor of Derry/Londonderry, advises surrender at the approach of James's army but is overruled and allowed to escape. The city holds out under siege for 105 days and is relieved on this date |
Wednesday, July 31, 1737 |
Robert Adair, MP for Philipstown, dies on this date, having 'had one of his legs cut off above the knee for a mortification and died soon after' |
Thursday, July 31, 1834 |
Inauguration of the first Dublin — Dun Laoghaire horse-drawn "train service" |
Tuesday, July 31, 1838 |
Poor Relief Act extends English poor law system to Ireland: elected boards of guardians, responsible to a poor law commission, set up to administer a workhouse system. |
Tuesday, July 31, 1838 |
Enactment of the Irish Poor Law |
Tuesday, July 31, 1877 |
Minority of Home Rulers begin obstruction tactics in Commons |
Monday, July 31, 1893 |
Gaelic League founded by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill in order to encourage Irish people to speak the language and take a greater interest in their culture. |
Monday, July 31, 1893 |
Founding of the Gaelic League in order to revive the use of the Irish language and foster appreciation of Ireland's Celtic heritage |
Tuesday, July 31, 1917 |
Death of poet Francis Ledwidge, from Slane, Co. Meath, who is killed by a stray shell at Ypres during World War I |
Saturday, July 31, 1920 |
Conference in Dublin between IRA GHQ staff and some southern brigades – the three Cork Brigades are represented by Terence MacSwiney; Liam L ynch and Liam Deasy respectively. |
Monday, July 31, 1922 |
Harry Boland shot by Free Staters in Skerries; he would die three days later |
Friday, July 31, 1981 |
The family of Paddy Quinn, then on day 47 of his hunger strike, intervened and asked for medical treatment to save his life. [This series of events was to be repeated a number of times towards the end of the hunger strike as more and more familles intervened to save the hunger strikers.] |
Friday, July 31, 1981 |
Kevin Lynch, political prisoner, dies on hunger strike in the Maze prison |
Friday, July 31, 1998 |
Parades Commission rejects a fresh application by Orangemen to parade along the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown on August 2 |
Monday, July 31, 2000 |
The British Army begins dismantling the controversial Borucki observation post which has dominated the skyline in Crossmaglen for more than 20 years |
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
After 38 years, the occupation of Northern Ireland by the British Army ends at midnight. Operation Banner is the Army's longest continuous campaign in its history with more than 300,000 personnel serving and 763 directly killed by paramilitaries. |
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