1927 in Ireland - Events

Events

• April 6 - Dan Breen proposes a Bill in the Dáil that Article 17 of the Irish Free State Constitution be removed. President W. T. Cosgrave opposes the removal of the Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown.
• April 13 - Delegates at the annual conference of the Farmers' Party reject proposals to merge with Cumann na nGaedheal.
• April 18 - Celtic Park in Belfast is opened. It is the first greyhound track in Ireland.
• June 20 - In a radio broadcast, the leader of Fianna Fáil, Éamon de Valera, says that the results of the general election prove that the people of Ireland want to get rid of the Oath of Allegiance.
• June 29 - A morning eclipse of the sun takes place across Ireland.
• July 10 - Kevin O'Higgins, Minister for Justice, is assassinated by the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army.
• July 15 - Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth) dies aged 59. She was an officer in the Irish Citizen Army, taking part in the Easter Rising; the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat; and the first female Irish cabinet minister.
• July 28 - Ireland's first automatic telephone exchange is opened in Dublin.
• August 11 - Following changes to the electoral laws Fianna Fáil Teachtaí Dála arrive at Leinster House for the first time. They take the Oath of Allegiance, dismissing it as an "empty formula".
• November - Ernest Bewley opens his Grafton Street café in Dublin.
• The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) is established as an offshoot of the Shannon Scheme.
• The Agricultural Credit Corporation is set up to encourage investment in agriculture.
• Mary Bailey becomes the first woman to pilot an aeroplane across the Irish Sea.