In this month: July 1917

10 July: Éamon De Valera wins East Clare by-election by margin of five to one over nationalist rival.

From Century Ireland: Introducing De Valera.

25 July: First meeting of ‘Irish Convention’ in Trinity College Dublin.

31 July: Death of Lance-Corporal Francis Ledwidge at Ypres.

From Century Ireland: The life and death of Francis Ledwidge.