Events
- January 1 - Douglas Hyde officially opens the Irish Free State broadcasting service, 2RN (later RTÉ Radio 1), in Dublin.
- January 4 - The country's first Aeroplane Club is formed in Dublin.
- January 19 - The Minister for Finance, Ernest Blythe, introduces a Bill providing for the issue of silver, nickel and bronze coins for Saorstát Éireann.
- January 21 - The Northern Ireland Minister for Agriculture meets his Free State counterpart, Patrick Hogan. The meeting paves the way for co-operation in securing better animal health for livestock.
- March 11 - Éamon de Valera resigns as President of Sinn Féin at its Árd-Fheis when one of his proposals is defeated.
- April 7 - An elderly Irishwoman, Violet Gibson, shoots the Italian Prime Minister, Benito Mussolini, in Rome.
- April 29 - Dublin city commissioners decide to remove Nelson's Pillar from O'Connell Street. However, this decision needs the approval of the Oireachtas.
- May 16 - At La Scala Theatre in Dublin a new political party is formed. Fianna Fáil - the Republican Party is launched by leading republicans including Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass.
- August 20 - The Irish pilgrimage to the battlefields of France and Flanders leaves today. Celtic crosses are to be unveiled in memory of the members of the 16th Irish Division who died during World War I.
- September 5 - 48 people burned to death in a cinema fire at Dromcolliher, County Limerick.
- November 17 - President W. T. Cosgrave introduces the Public Safety (Emergency Powers) Bill following the killing of two unarmed gardaí.
- November 25 - Éamon de Valera addresses the first Fianna Fáil Árd-Fheis in Dublin.
- The Gaeltacht – regions with a significant percentage of Irish language speakers – is officially recognised, following the report of the first Coimisiún na Gaeltachta in the Free State.
- Irish Sugar Manufacturing Company Limited established in Carlow as a private enterprise to process sugar beet.
- The population of the Irish Free State is 2,972,000
- The population of Northern Ireland is 1,257,000.
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