| Saturday, July 30, 1650 | Edward Parry, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe, dies in Dublin from the plague |
| Tuesday, July 30, 1715 | Birth of Nahum Tate the first Irish-born poet laureate of England. Playwright and hymn writer, his best known work is While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night |
| Thursday, July 30, 1761 | Birth of Henry FitzGerald, diplomat, soldier and brother of Lord Edward FitzGerald |
| Thursday, July 30, 1761 | Richard Nugent, MP for Fore and still a teenager, fights a duel with a Mr. Reilly and dies of his wounds a week later |
| Wednesday, July 30, 1862 | Death of Eugene O’Curry, influential music collector |
| Thursday, July 30, 1863 | Birth of Henry Ford, son of William and Mary Ford who crossed the Atlantic from Ireland by steerage. Ford changed the entire world through his revolutionary assembly-line manufacture of motor cars |
| Wednesday, July 30, 1919 | Detective Sergeant Patrick Smyth of the G Division DMP shot by the IRA in Millmount Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin on the orders of Michael Collins - first 'G man' to be shot. Brought to Mater Hospital where he died on 8 September |
| Friday, July 30, 1920 | Paddy Daly and Jim Slattery (two Squad members) enter the offices of Frank Brooke and kill him. (Brooke is Director of the Great Southern and Eastern Railways and a member of Lord French’s Advisory Council.) |
| Friday, July 30, 1920 | General Lucas escapes from his IRA captors near Oola (18 miles for Limerick city) and after being picked up by the British Army immediately drives into an ambush in which two soldiers are killed and two wounded. The ambush had been set up by Sean Treacy and his men (Tipperary 3rd Brigade) in order to intercept a military patrol collecting mail from Limerick Junction. This ambush almost turned into a disaster for the IRA. |
| Saturday, July 30, 1927 | Novelist and critic John Broderick is born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath |
| Thursday, July 30, 1942 | Birth of artist Charles Harper on Valentia Island in Co. Kerry |
| Wednesday, July 30, 1947 | The Soviet Union blocks Ireland’s application for entry into the UN on the grounds that Ireland, being neutral, had not helped to set up the organisation. However there are strong suspicions that the Soviet Union’s real objections are because Ireland is a Catholic country and would therefore always vote against the communist bloc countries |
| Sunday, July 30, 1978 | Tomás Ó Fiaich, Catholic Primate of Ireland, paid a visit to Republican prisoners in the Maze Prison. The prisoners were taking part in the 'blanket protest'. [Over 300 Republican prisoners were refusing to wear prison clothes or follow normal prison regulations in an attempt to secure a return of special category status.] |
| Saturday, July 30, 1988 | Orange Order leaders file notice of four planned marches along the nationalist Garvaghy Road during August |
| Sunday, July 30, 2000 | Michael Flatley's Lord of The Dance extravaganza is staged at Belfast's historic Stormont Castle |
| Sunday, July 30, 2000 | It is announced that Dublin is to get a full-scale underground metro system as part of a multi-billion pound plan to tackle the capital's crippling traffic congestion |
| Tuesday, July 30, 2002 | Soccer legend George Best enters hospital for a liver transplant. |
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