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[edit] Events

• January 1 - Most traffic in the Ireland comes under the control of Córas Iompair Éireann.
• January 12 - The people of Ireland donate £100,000 to the starving people of Italy.
• April 13 - Dáil Éireann sits for 20 minutes to express sympathy and pay tribute to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died yesterday. The House is then adjourned
• April 27 - Fine Gael nominate Seán Mac Eoin as their presidential election candidate in opposition to the Minister for Finance Seán T. O'Kelly.
• May 2 - In one of the most controversial episodes of his premiership, Taoiseach Éamon de Valera calls on the German Ambassador to express his sympathy following the death of Adolf Hitler.
• May 7 - Reports of a German surrender bring students of Trinity College Dublin onto the roof singing the English and French national anthems. A riot ensues following the burning of the Irish tricolour.
• May 16 - Éamon de Valera replies in a radio broadcast to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.

Sean T O'Kelly

• June 25 - Seán T. O'Kelly is inaugurated as the second President of Ireland.
• August 21 - Two nationalist MPs take the Oath of Allegiance and enter the Westminster Parliament.
• September 16 - Count John McCormack, the famous tenor, dies in Dublin aged 61.
• October 15 - Professor Eoin MacNeill dies in Dublin aged 77. He was a founder-member of the Gaelic League and the Irish Volunteers.
• December 3 - Oranges go on sale in Ireland for the first time since the end of World War II.
• December 14 - The Nuremberg Trials hear the story of German plans to create a revolution in Ireland during the War.
• December 25 - In his presidential address President Seán T. O'Kelly asks the youth of Ireland to make a particular effort to restore the Irish language.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Cork United

• FAI Cup

Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1 - 0 Bohemians.

[edit] Golf

• Irish Open is not played due to The Emergency.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to March

• 8 January - Kevin Conneff, bodhrán player and singer with The Chieftains.
• 12 January - Tony Maher, Cork hurler.
• 2 February - Billy Morgan, Cork Gaelic footballer and manager.
• 12 February - Jimmy Keaveney, Dublin Gaelic footballer.

Brenda Fricker with her Academy Award in 1992

• 17 February - Brenda Fricker, actress.
• 17 March - Paddy Mulligan, soccer player.
• March - Bernard Durkan, Fine Gael TD for Kildare North.

[edit] April to June

• 2 April - Batt O'Keeffe, Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North West and Minister of State.
• 8 April - Diarmuid Martin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland.

Margaret Hassan

• 18 April - Margaret Hassan, aid worker in Iraq, kidnapped and murdered by Iraqi insurgents (d.2004).
• 20 April - Alan Dukes, former leader of Fine Gael and TD, Director General of the Institute of European Affairs.
• 26 April - Séamus Kirk, Fianna Fáil TD for Louth.
• 27 April - Dinny McGinley, Fine Gael TD for Donegal South West.
• 4 May - Jim Higgins, former Fine Gael TD, Senator and MEP.

Christy Moore in Liverpool Philharmonic , October 2008

• 7 May - Christy Moore, folk singer.
• 1 June - Jarlath McDonagh, former Fine Gael politician.
• 6 June - Denis Coughlan, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
• 20 June - Denis Brennan, Bishop of Ferns (2006 - ).
• 30 June - Sean Scully, painter.
• June - Nora Owen, former Fine Gael TD and Minister for Justice.

[edit] July to December

• 1 July - Jack Wall, Labour Party (Ireland) TD for Kildare South.
• 11 July - Patrick Joseph McGrath, second Roman Catholic Bishop of San Jose in California.
• July - John Dardis, former Progressive Democrats Senator.
• 3 August - Eamon Dunphy, former footballer, commentator and broadcaster.
• 12 September - Maria Aitken, actress, writer and director.
• 13 September - Niall FitzGerald, businessman.
• 15 September - Donie Cassidy, Fianna Fáil TD representing Longford–Westmeath, businessman.
• 20 September - Eamonn Walsh, former Irish Labour Party TD, local councillor.
• September - Gerald McCarthy, Cork hurling manager and former player.
• 19 November - Christie Hennessy, folk singer songwriter (d.2007).
• 8 December - John Banville, novelist.
• 17 December - John Neill, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, Bishop of Glendalough, Primate of Ireland, and Metropolitan.
• 24 December - Noel Davern, Fianna Fáil TD representing Tipperary South, Cabinet Minister, Member of the European Parliament.

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• Richie Bennis, Limerick hurling manager.
• Niamh Bhreathnach, senior Labour Party politician, formerly Minister for Education.
• Éamonn Cregan, former Limerick Gaelic footballer and hurler, manager.
• Susan Denham, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland.
• Alexis FitzGerald, Jnr, former Fine Gael TD and Senator.
• Justin McCarthy, former Cork hurler, Waterford hurling manager.
• Eddie O'Brien, former Cork hurler.
• Bernard O'Donoghue, poet and academic.
• Philip Pettit, philosopher and political theorist.
• Kieran Purcell, former Kilkenny hurler.
• Pad Joe Whelahan, Offaly hurler, manager.

[edit] Deaths

• 30 January - Patrick Belton, Fianna Fáil and Cumann na nGaedhael TD, President of the anti-communist Irish Christian Front (b.1885).
• 4 April - Henry Guinness, served as an Independent member of the Seanad from 1922.
• 24 July - Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of the assassinated Michael Collins (b.1892).
• 3 October - Dermod O'Brien, painter (b.1865).
• 13 October - Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (b.1861).

Eoin MacNeill

• 15 October - Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (b.1867).
• 24 October - Frederick Field, Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord (b.1871).
• 6 December - Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier of Tasmania in 1939 (b.1870).
• 20 December - John M. Lyle, architect in Canada (b.1872).