Cape Villano: 15 die, 13 survive. 10 June – Violando N Goulandris of neutral (at this time) Greece sailing from Santa Fe, Argentina to Waterford with a cargo of wheat is torpedoed by off Cape Finisterre: 6 die, 22 survive. 12 June – lands a German spy, Karl Simon, in Dingle. He is promptly arrested and interned for the duration. 19 June – Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies established. 23 June – Minister Frank Aiken encourages everyone to store food and water and to prepare a shelter in case of a direct hit. 2 July – British-owned , carrying civilian internees and POWs of Italian and German origin from Liverpool to Canada, is torpedoed and sunk by off northwest Ireland with the loss of around 865 lives. 4 July – Taoiseach Éamon de Valera announces that the policy of neutrality adopted the previous September will not be reversed. 7 July – Operation Lobster I: three German agents are infiltrated into Ireland. 11 July – Moyalla rescues twenty survivors from Athellaird (British) off Cape Clear Island. 15 July City of Limerick (Capt. R. Ferguson) bombed by aircraft and sinks in Bay of Biscay, 700 miles west of Ushant – 2 dead. Republican Frank Ryan is released by the authorities of Francoist Spain from Burgos prison into the hands of the German Abwehr. 20 July – City of Waterford (Capt. T. Freehill) shelled by submarine in North Atlantic but escapes. 30 July – Kyleclare rescues 52 survivors from Clan Menzies (British) off Mayo coast. 1 August – collier Kerry Head bombed off Kinsale; she survives this attack, but see 22 October. 8 August – Operation Green (Unternehmen Grün), a proposed German invasion of the south of Ireland, is presented to Nazi German High Command as a diversion for Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of Britain planned at this time. 10 August – British armed merchantman is torpedoed off Malin Head by . 15 August – Meath (Capt. T. MacFariane) mined and sunk off the South Stack, Holy Island, Anglesey; crew rescued by a local fishing trawler but 700 cattle lost. 16 August – Loch Ryan (Capt. J. Nolan) bombed off Land's End but survives. 24 August – City of Waterford (Capt. T. Freehill) bombed in Irish Sea but survives. 26 August – five German bombs are dropped on County Wexford in a daylight raid. One hits the Shelbourne Co-operative Creamery in Campile