1933 in Ireland

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Events

• February 4 - Fianna Fáil, led by Éamon de Valera, win their first overall majority in Dáil Éireann. He is welcomed in his own constituency in County Clare where 77 horsemen and 77 torchbearers who light 77 tar barrels in honour of the 77 seats won by the party.
• February 21 - Representatives from the Netherlands and Germany arrive in Galway to inspect the site of a proposed new £3 million airport.
• February 22 - General Eoin O'Duffy is removed from his post as Commissioner of an Garda Síochána.
• February 27 - Four people die in the great snowstorm that is gripping the country.
• March 2 - A vote to remove the Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown is carried by 71 to 38.
• March 17 - Éamon de Valera gives a State reception in St. Patrick's Hall of Dublin Castle, the first since the foundation of the state.
• April 17 - Ireland's first parachute jump, executed by Joseph Gilmore, is successful.
• May 3 - In Dáil Éireann the Bill to abolish the Oath of Allegiance is passed.
• August 10 - General Eoin O'Duffy outlines his proposals for remodelling parliament. He favours a system of representatives from vocational and professional groups.
• August 15 - The Cistercian Abbey at Mount Melleray, County Waterford celebrates its centenary.
• August 23 - Sugar Manufacture Act provides for nationalisation of the sugar beet processing industry to ensure self-sufficiency.
• September 2 - The United Ireland Organisation is formed as Cumann na nGaedheal, the National Centre Party and the National Guard agree to merge under the leadership of Eoin O'Duffy. W. T. Cosgrave will lead the party in Dáil Éireann.
• September 14 - The United Ireland movement, which has adopted the title 'Fine Gael', will contest the general election in October as a political party.
• December 8 - The Blueshirts are banned by the Fianna Fáil government.

Arts and literature

• Muiris Ó Súilleabháin publishes his memoir Fiche Bliain ag Fás / Twenty Years A'Growing.
• W. B. Yeats publishes his Collected Poems^[1] and The Winding Stair and Other Poems.

Sport

Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Dundalk

• FAI Cup

Winners: Shamrock Rovers 3 - 3, 3 - 0 Dolphins

Golf

• Irish Open is won by Bob Kenyon (England).

Births

January to June

• 1 January - Jeremiah Coffey, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sale, Australia.
• 11 March - Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh, physicist responsible for the O'Raifeartaigh Theorem and the O'Raifeartaigh Model of supersymmetry breaking (died 2000).
• 27 April - Liam Tuohy, soccer player and manager.
• 14 May - Frank Harte, singer and song collector (died 2005).
• 23 June - Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, journalist, broadcaster, chairman Bord na Gaeilge, president Conradh na Gaeilge (died 2003).

July to December

• 14 July - John Beresford, 8th Marquess of Waterford, peer.
• 22 July - Tommy Traynor, soccer player (died 2006).
• 18 August - Fiachra Ó'Ceallaigh OFM, Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin (1994 -).
• 20 August - Michael O'Halloran, politician in the UK (died 1999).
• 11 September - Amby Fogarty, soccer player.
• September - Michael Howard, former Fine Gael Senator.
• 29 October - Joseph Cassidy, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.
• 5 December - Edward Daly, former Catholic Bishop of Derry.
• 15 December - Sam Stephenson, architect (died 2006).

Full date unknown

• John Bennett, Cork hurler.
• Kieran Carey, Tipperary hurler (died 2007).
• Fergus Crawford, soccer player (died 1985).
• Liam Hyland, former Fianna Fáil Senator, TD and MEP.
• Jack Mahon, former Gaelic footballer with Galway (died 2005.
• Martin O'Donoghue, economist, former Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and Seanad Éireann member.
• Tony O'Donohue, former municipal politician in Toronto, Canada.
• John O'Leary, former Fianna Fáil TD.
• Frank Prendergast, former Irish Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick.
• Owen Walsh, artist (died 2002).

Deaths

January to June

• 21 January - George Moore, novelist, poet, art critic and dramatist (born 1852).
• January - Bowman Malcolm, railway engineer (born 1854).
• 7 March - Thomas O'Shaughnessy, lawyer and judge (born 1850).
• 19 March - E. Temple Thurston, poet, playwright and author (born 1879).
• 16 June - Denis O'Donnell, entrepreneur (born 1875).
• 29 June - Countess of Desart, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad and remained a member until her death.

July to December

• 1 July - P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco (born 1863).
• 10 July - Francis Fitzpatrick, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 during an attack on Sekukuni's Town, South Africa (born 1859).
• 2 August - James McCombs, politician in New Zealand (born 1873).
• 7 December - James Cullen, priest and mathematician (born 1867).
• 8 December, John Joly, scientist (born 1857).

Full date unknown

• Caspar Phair, Gold Commissioner in British Columbia.

See also

• Anglo-Irish Trade War

References