July 18, 1870
Michael Davitt (25 March 1846 – 30 May 1906) was an Irish republican activist for a variety of causes, especially Home Rule and land reform.
July 18, 1865
George A. Birmingham was the pen name of James Owen Hannay (16 July 1865 – 2 February 1950), Irish clergyman and prolific novelist.
July 18, 1863
Francis Elrington Ball, known as F. Elrington Ball (1863–1928), was an Irish author and legal historian, best known for his work The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921 (1926).
July 18, 1822
Over the centuries, there have been five theatres in Dublin called the Theatre Royal.
July 18, 1794
Feargus Edward O’Connor (18 July 1796 – 30 August 1855) was an Irish Chartist leader and advocate of the Land Plan, which sought to provide smallholdings for the laboring classes.
July 18, 1792
John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 06, 1747 – July 18, 1792) was a Scottish-American naval captain who was the United States’ first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary …
July 18, 1689
The Mountjoy was a merchant ship used to relieve the Siege of Derry in Ulster in 1689.
July 18, 1579
James fitz Maurice FitzGerald (died 1579), called “fitz Maurice”, was captain-general of Desmond while Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, was detained in England by Queen Elizabeth I …
July 18, 1561
On July 18th, 1561, Irish Rebel, Shane O’Neill defeated English Troops at the Battle of Red Sagmus, Lord Lieutenant of Earl of Sussex kept O’Neill on the defensive.
July 18, 1290
The Treaty of Birgham, also referred to as the Treaty of Salisbury, comprised two treaties in 1289 and 1290 intended to secure the independence of Scotland after the death of Alexander III of Scotland …
July 18, 390 BC
Rome was in midst of its early expansion with wars against its neighbors, notably the Etruscans in the 5th century BC
July 19, 1896
Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A.
