Events
- January 9 - Peig Sayers travels to Dublin for the first time in her 81 years.
- January 10 - An Aer Lingus Douglas DC-3 aircraft on a London–Dublin flight crashes in Wales due to vertical draft in the mountains of Snowdonia, killing twenty passengers and the three crew. It is the airline's first fatal crash in its fifteen-year history.
- April 30 - The Adoption Bill makes provision for the adoption of orphans and children aged between six months and seven years born outside wedlock.
- May 11 - In Washington, the House Foreign affairs Committee explains that Ireland's exclusion from Marshall Aid is due to its wartime neutrality.
- May 30 - The Minister for Education, Seán Moylan, announces longer summer holidays for national school children.
- November 24 - The Minister for Defence, Oscar Traynor, presents framed copies of the Proclamation to three printers who had been involved in the production of the original work.
- December 29 - Éamon de Valera arrives back in Dublin after spending four months at an eye clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands.
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