1932 in Ireland - Events

Events

• January 6 - Sale of the pro-Fianna Fáil Derry Journal in Donegal is briefly prohibited.
• January 29 - Dáil Éireann is dissolved by the Governor-General, James McNeill, bringing ten years of Cumann na nGaedheal rule to an end.
• March 7 - Dublin Corporation demands the return of the Hugh Lane pictures from the Tate Gallery in London.
• March 8 - Members of the new Fianna Fáil government meet with members of the Labour Party to discuss unemployment, housing, the Oath and other issues.
• March 10 - One of the first actions of the new Fianna Fáil government is the release of 23 political prisoners.
• March 31 - Dublin Corporation is considering removing Nelson's Pillar from O'Connell Street, Dublin on the grounds that it is an obstruction to traffic.
• May 19 - The Constitution (Removal of Oath) Bill is passed in Dáil Éireann.
• May 21 - Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, lands just outside Derry having taken 14 hours to cross the ocean.
• June 9 - Éamon de Valera and some members of his government leave for discussions with the British Government concerning the Ottawa Conference.
• June 14 - The first pictures of the atom-splitting apparatus are released. The machine was constructed by Dr. John Cockcroft and Dr. Ernest Walton of Trinity College, Dublin.
• June 21 - Ocean liners carrying thousands of pilgrims from the United States, Lapland and the Netherlands arrive in Irish ports for the Eucharistic Congress.
• June 22 - The 31st International Eucharistic Congress opens in Dublin Pro-Cathedral, the greatest gathering of Church digitaries that Ireland has ever seen.
• June 23 - 200,000 men attend mass at a High Altar in the Phoenix Park.
• June 24 - 200,000 women are addressed by the Archbishop of Edinburgh at mass in the Phoenix Park.
• June 26 - Almost a million worshippers attend Pontifical Mass in the Phoenix Park in the final ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress.
• June 30 - The Tailteann Games open in Croke Park, Dublin. The games were first organised in 632 BC.
• August 1 - At the Los Angeles Olympic Games, Bob Tisdall wins the 400-metre hurdles. Another Irishman, Dr. Pat O'Callaghan, wins gold in the hammer-throwing event.
• August 18 - Scottish aviator Jim Mollison takes off from Portmarnock Strand to become the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight.
• August 23 - Cumann na nGaedheal leader W. T. Cosgrave criticises Fianna Fáil's policy of retaining the land annuities.
• September 26 - Éamon de Valera gives his inaugural speech as President of the League of Nations. He criticises complacent resolutions where the demand is for effective action.
• October 9 - At a Cumann na nGaedheal meeting in County Limerick batons are drawn and shots are fired as General Richard Mulcahy tries to address the crowd.
• October 19 - Unemployed Dubliners march through the streets of Dublin to Leinster House where they hand in a petition to Seán T. O'Kelly.
• November 16 - The Prince of Wales travels to Belfast for the first time to open the new parliament building at Stormont.
• November 22 - The new Northern Ireland Parliament building at Stormont is officially opened.
• November 26 - Domhnall Ua Buachalla succeeds James McNeill as Governor-General of the Irish Free State.