Events
- January 1 - Most public transport in the Republic of 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.
- May 18 - Éamon de Valera announces £12 million food and clothing aid programmed for Europe.
- 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.
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