Events
- January 13 - Beechpark, the residence of President W. T. Cosgrave in Dublin, is set on fire.
- January 10 - An order is signed creating the Revenue Commissioners.
- January 22 - The Minister for Education, Eoin MacNeill, announces that Irish is to become a subject for examination in the Civil Service.
- February 18 - An amnesty for IRA Irregulars expires on this day. It was introduced by the Minister for Home Affairs, Kevin O'Higgins.
- April 11 - Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff of the Irregulars, is wounded and captured by the Free State's National Army in the Knockmealdown Mountains. His subsequent death in Clonmel is also announced by the army.
- April 14 - Austin Stack is captured by National Army troops at the foot of the Knockmealdown Mountains.
- April 30 - Thousands turn up to greet Jim Larkin as he returns to Ireland after a nine year absence in the United States.
- May 28 - The government releases two captured documents issued by the IRA on May 24. The letters, signed by Éamon de Valera and Frank Aiken (the new Chief of Staff) call for the dumping of arms and the ending of armed struggle. The Civil War is officially over.
- July 20 - Éamon de Valera appeals to the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic for $100,000 to fight the upcoming general election.
- August - The British Royal Navy patrol ship HMY Helga is handed over to the Irish Coastal and Marine Service as the Public Armed Ship Muirchú.
- August 15 - Éamon de Valera is arrested at an election meeting in Ennis, County Clare.
- September 10 - Ireland is admitted into the League of Nations.
- September 17 - 33 members present themselves at Leinster House for the swearing in of the new Dáil. No anti-Treaty republicans attend.
- September 19 - The Fourth Dáil meets for the first time at Leinster House. Michael Hayes is elected Ceann Comhairle and W. T. Cosgrave is elected President of the Executive Council.
- October 13–November 23 - IRA prisoners in Irish gaols stage a hunger strike. Two die.
- October 15 - The Mallow Viaduct over the River Blackwater is officially re-opened by President W. T. Cosgrave.
- November 14 - The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to poet and playwright William Butler Yeats.
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