1941 in Ireland - Events

Events

  • January 2 - Three Carlow women are killed in a night of bombing in parts of Leinster.
  • January 13 - The poet and novelist James Joyce dies in Zurich.
  • January 24 - Part of the old State Chambers in Dublin Castle are destroyed by fire.
  • February 21 - First flight by a British Royal Air Force flying boat through the "Donegal Corridor", Irish airspace between its base in Northern Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean, a concession secretly agreed by Éamon de Valera.
  • March 6 - 3,800 animals are slaughtered after the fiftieth case of foot-and-mouth disease is announced.
  • March 20 - Bread rationing is introduced.
  • March 21 - Glencullen (Capt. T. Waldron) and Glencree (Capt. D. McLean) machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Bristol Channel.
  • March 22 16:00 hours - Collier St. Fintan (Capt. N. Hendry) attacked by two Luftwaffe bombers, off the coast of Pembrokeshire and sunk with all hands - 9 dead.
  • March 26 - Edenvale (Capt. T. Tyrrell) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Bristol Channel.
  • March 27 - Lady Belle (Capt. T. Donohue) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Irish Sea.
  • April 2 - Edenvale (Capt. T. Tyrrell) bombed and machine-gunned (again) by Luftwaffe in Bristol Channel.
  • April 15 - The Belfast blitz 1,000 people are killed in bombing raids on Belfast. 71 fire men with 13 fire tenders from Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, and Dún Laoghaire cross the Irish border to assist their Belfast colleagues.
  • May 5 - Belfast suffers its third bombing raid during World War II. The Dublin government authorises its emergency services to assist.
  • May 12 - Menapia (Capt C Bobels) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe off Welsh coast - 2 wounded.
  • May 14 - Five further outbreaks of foot-and-mouth diesase are reported.
  • May 17 - Glenageary (Capt R. Simpson) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Irish Sea.
  • May 19 - City of Waterford (Capt. W. Gibbons) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe off Welsh coast - 1 wounded.
  • May 26 - A special sitting of Dáil Éireann unanimously condemns the introduction of conscription in Northern Ireland.
  • May 27 - Speaking in the British House of Commons Prime Minister Winston Churchill rules out the introduction of conscription in the North.
  • May 30 - Kyleclare (Capt. T. Hanrahan) bombed off Waterford coast.
  • May 31 - Bombing of Dublin in World War II: 34 people are killed when the Luftwaffe bomb part of Dublin.
  • August 22 - S.S. Clonlara (Capt. Joseph Reynolds) torpedoed and sunk by U-564 in North Atlantic, while in convoy OG71 ("Nightmare Convoy") - 13 survivors and 11 dead.
  • October 12 - Charles Stewart Parnell, the uncrowned King of Ireland, is honoured in a huge pageant in Dublin.

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