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Events
- January 29 - Dáil Éireann is dissolved by the Governor-General, James McNeill. It brings ten years of Cumann na nGaedhael rule to an end.
- March 7 - Dublin Corporation demands the return of the Hugh Lane pictures from the Tate Gallery in London.
- March 8 - Members of the new Fianna Fáil government meet with members of the Labour Party to discuss unemployment, housing, the Oath and other issues.
- March 10 - One of the first actions of the new Fianna Fáil government is the release of 23 political prisoners.
- March 31 - Dublin Corporation is considering removing Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street, Dublin on the grounds that it is an obstruction to traffic.
- May 19 - The Constitution (Removal of Oath) Bill is passed in Dáil Éireann.
- May 21 - Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, lands just outside Derry having taken 14 hours to cross the ocean.
- June 9 - Éamon de Valera and some members of his government leave for discussions with the British Government concerning the Ottawa Conference.
- June 14 - The first pictures of the atom-splitting apparatus are released. The machine was constructed by Dr. John Cockcroft and Dr. Ernest Walton of Trinity College, Dublin.
- June 21 - Ocean liners carrying thousands of pilgrims from the United States, Lapland and the Netherlands arrive in Irish ports for the Eucharistic Congress.
- June 22 - The 31st Eucharistic Congress opens in the Pro-Cathedral in the greatest gathering of Church digitaries that Ireland has ever seen.
- June 23 - 200,000 men attend mass at a High Altar in the Phoenix Park.
- June 24 - 200,000 women are addressed by the Archbishop of Edinburgh at mass in the Phoenix Park.
- June 26 - Almost a million worshippers attend the Pontifical Mass in the Phoenix Park in the final ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress.
- June 30 - The Tailteann Games open in Croke Park, Dublin. The games were first organised in 632 BC.
- August 1 - At the Los Angeles Olympic Games, Bob Tisdell wins the 400-metre hurdles. Another Irishman, Dr. Pat O'Callaghan, wins gold in the hammer-throwing event.
- August 23 - Cumann na nGaedhael leader W. T. Cosgrave criticises Fianna Fáil's policy of retaining the land annuities.
- September 26 - Éamon de Valera gives his inaugural speech as President of the League of Nations. He criticises complacent resolutions where the demand is for effective action.
- October 9 - At a Cumann na nGaedhael meeting in County Limerick batons are drawn and shots are fired as General Richard Mulcahy tries to address the crowd.
- October 19 - Unemployed Dubliners march through the streets of Dublin to Leinster House where they hand in a petition to Seán T. O'Kelly.
- November 16 - The Prince of Wales travels to Belfast for the first time to open the new parliament building at Stormont.
- November 22 - The new Northern Ireland Parliament building at Stormont is officially opened.
- November 26 - Domhnall Ua Buachalla succeeds James McNeill as Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
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- Winners: Shamrock Rovers
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- Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1 - 0 Dolphins
Golf
Births
January to June
- 15 January - Tom McEllistrim, Jnr, Fianna Fáil TD (d.2000).
- 29 January - Bernard Cowen, Fianna Fáil TD and Minister of State (d.1984).
- 28 February - Noel Cantwell, former international soccer player (d.2005).
- 10 March - Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins, former Fine Gael TD.
- 15 March - Paddy Crowley, soccer player (d.2006).
- 1 June - Michael Lipper, Irish Labour Party politician and TD (d.1987).
- 5 June - Christy Brown, author, painter and poet (d.1981).
- 5 June - Ronnie Dawson, rugby player.
- 12 June - Alfred Cooper, cricketer.
July to December
- 7 July - Eileen Lemass, former Fianna Fáil TD and MEP.
- 2 August - Peter O'Toole, actor.
- 14 August - Denis Faul, monsignor, Northern Ireland civil rights activist, chaplin to prisoners in Maze Prison during 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (d.2006).
- 21 August - Gene FitzGerald, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (d.2007).
- 26 August - Dermot Curtis, soccer player.
- 3 November - Albert Reynolds, former Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil.
- 15 December - Edna O'Brien, novelist.
- 29 December - Eileen Desmond, Irish Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, MEP and Seanad Éireann member (d.2005).
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Deaths
- 1 January - J. J. Clancy, Sinn Féin TD, member of 1st Dáil (b. c1891).
- 17 January - Louis Brennan, inventor (b.1852).
- 8 February - Mad Dog Coll, mob hitman in New York (b.1908).
- 26 February - Robert Donovan, cricketer (b.1899).
- 4 March - James Henry Reynolds, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Rorke's Drift, South Africa (b.1844).
- 11 March - Thomas Hunter, member of 1st Dáil representing Cork North East.
- 13 March - John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson, politician and judge, Attorney-General for Ireland and Law Lord (b.1844).
- 26 March - Horace Curzon Plunkett, politician, agricultural reformer and writer (b.1854).
- 22 May - Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist and folklorist (b.1852).
- 12 June - Catherine Coll, mother of Éamon de Valera (b.1858).
- 27 June - Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, civil servant, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India (b.1847).
- 14 October - Katherine Plunket, botanical artist and longest-lived Irish person ever (b. 1820).
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