Events
- 3 January - William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, is hanged in Wandsworth Prison for treason.
- 7 January - The Minister for Education, Thomas Derrig, announces that because refugee children who arrived in Ireland during the war do not have a sufficient knowledge of the Irish language they cannot obtain the Leaving Certificate.
- 21 January - Work starts on a comprehensive Irish-English dictionary.
- 4 February - It is announced that George Bernard Shaw is to be awarded the freedom of Dublin.
- 17 June - Aer Lingus inaugurates a Dublin-Paris air service.
- 6 July - A new republican political party, Clann na Poblachta, is formed in Dublin.
- 25 July - Éamon de Valera's motion to apply for membership of the United Nations is accepted in the Dáil.
- 6 August - On the first anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Captain Bob Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the bomb, arrives at Shannon Airport, completing his first flight as a civil aviation pilot.
- 12 August - A plane bringing 23 French Girl Guides to Dublin crashes into the side of Djouce in the Wicklow Mountains.
- 29 August - George Bernard Shaw is honoured by being made a freeman of Dublin.
- 2 September - The Emergency Powers Act 1939 expires. The Defence Forces (Requisitions of Emergency) Order, 1940, is also revoked by Order (signed 28 August) with effect from this date.
- September - The Marine Service is formally disbanded and replaced by the Naval Service as a permanent component of the Irish Defence Forces.
- 6 October - Seventy primary school teachers protest about low pay on the pitch at Croke Park at half-time during the Kerry-Roscommon All-Ireland Football Final.
- 22 November - Walt Disney arrives in Dublin. He has a meeting with the Irish Folklore Commission to further his investigation of leprechauns for a forthcoming film.
- 18 December - The government announces the release of 24 internees, including Brendan Behan.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
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—E.M. (Edward Morgan)