Events
- February 2 - Éamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
- April 11 - Minister for Health Dr. Noel Browne resigns and his Mother and Child Scheme is overturned.
- April 19 - The Attorney General for Northern Ireland, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, says that Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth.
- May 24 - Gardaí exchange shots with two men after they throw a bomb at the British Embassy in Dublin.
- June 8 - Boxer Jack Doyle defeats America's 'Beer Baron' Two-Ton Tony Gelanto at Tolka Park.
- June 10 - Justice George Gavan Duffy, one of the signatories of the 1921 Treaty, dies in Dublin.
- June 13 - Éamon de Valera becomes Taoiseach with one of the smallest majorities on record 74-69.
- July 1 - Taoiseach Éamon de Valera pays his first visit to Derry in 25 years.
- July 18 - The Abbey Theatre in Dublin is burnt to the ground.
- November 15 - The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded jointly to Professor Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin and Sir John Cockcroft.
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