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The Irish calendar does not observe the typical astronomical seasons (beginning, in the Northern Hemisphere, on the equinoxes and solstices), or the meteorological seasons (beginning on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1), but rather centres the seasons around the solstices and equinoxes (so that, for instance, midsummer falls on the summer solstice), beginning the seasons at the approximate halfway points between solstice and equinox, following the seasons of the ancient Celts (see below) which are pre-Christian in origin. This Celtic origin is particularly evident in the Irish naming of many of the months: some names, like May (Bealtaine), August (Lughnasadh/Lúnasa) and November (Samhain) were the names of pagan Celtic festivals. In addition, the names for September and October (Meán Fómhair and Deireadh Fómhair respectively) translate directly as "middle of autumn" and "end of autumn". Christianity has also left its mark on the Irish months: December is Nollaig, a word also meaning Christmastide.
Seasons
Winter - An Geimhreadh
November - Samhain / Mí na Samhna
- November 1 - Samhain, All
Saints Day and Lá Samhna (November Day), the first day of Winter and of the Celtic New
Year
- for Irish Roman Catholics, a Holy Day of Obligation
- 1884 - Gaelic Athletic Association founded at Thurles
- 1920 - British execution of Kevin Barry during the Irish War of Independence
- November 2 - 1950: death of George Bernard Shaw
- November 3 - 1796 first court sittings at the Four Courts, Dublin
- November 6 - Feast of All the Saints of Ireland
- November 7 - 1791: The Custom House, Dublin, opened
- November 8 - 1847: birth of Bram Stoker
- November 10 - 1728: birth of Oliver Goldsmith
- 1966 - Jack Lynch elected Taoiseach
- 1987 - funeral, in Dublin, of broadcaster Eamonn Andrews
- November 11 - 1933: Abolition of appeal from courts of the
Irish Free State to the Privy Council.
- 1997 - Mary McAleese inaugurated as President of Ireland
- 2004 - Mary McAleese inaugurated as President of Ireland for second term
- November 14 - 1923 - Senator William Butler Yeats awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
- November 15 - 1951: Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Professor Ernest Walton
of Trinity College, Dublin
- 1985 - Anglo-Irish Agreement signed at Hillsborough Castle, Co. Down
- November 16 - 1965: death of W.T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
- 1986 - death of Siobhán McKenna, actress
- November 17 - 1974: death in office of Erskine Hamilton Childers, President of Ireland.
- November 18 - 1982 death of Hilton Edwards, actor, director and co-founder of the Gate Theatre
- November 19 - 1798: death of Wolfe Tone
- 1913 - Irish Citizen Army founded
- November 20 - 1949: students and staff celebrate centenary of University College Galway
- November 21 - 1920: Bloody Sunday (1920) in Dublin
- November 22 - 1963 death of C.S. Lewis, novelist
- November 24 - 1922: Execution of Robert Erskine Childers by the Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War.
- 1940 death of James Craig, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
- 1982 - Irish general election for the 24th Dáil
- 1995 - Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, (Divorce)
- November 25 - 1913: Irish Volunteers founded
- 1966 - death of Seán T. O'Kelly, former President of Ireland
- 1992 - Irish general election for the 27th Dáil
- 1992 - Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, (Right to travel abroad for abortion)
- 1992 - Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, (Information on abortion)
- November 27 - 1906 death of Michael Cusack, founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association
- November 28 - 1905 founding of Sinn Féin
- November 29 - 1944 - County Dublin awarded a coat of arms by the Chief Herald of Ireland
- November 30 - 1667: birth of Jonathan Swift
- 1900: death of Oscar Wilde
- 1944 death of General Eoin O'Duffy, former leader of the Blueshirts
- 1995 Bill Clinton pays official visit to Belfast
December - Nollaig
- December 1 - 1494: Poynings
Law enacted
- 1995 - Bill Clinton pays official visit to Dublin and addresses crowd of 80,000 in College Green
- December 3 - 1925 Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland) made public
- 1976: Patrick Hillery inaugurated as President of Ireland.
- 1983 - Patrick Hillery inaugurated for second term as President of Ireland.
- 1990 - Mary Robinson inaugurated as President of Ireland.
- 2003 - Budget Day
- December 4 - 2002 - Budget Day
- December 5 - 2001 - Budget Day
- December 6 - Feast of Saint Nicholas, chief
patron of the City of Galway
- 1921: Anglo-Irish Treaty signed
- 1922: (i.e. exactly one year later) Irish Free State comes into existence
- 2000 and 2006 - Budget Day
- December 7 - 1972 - Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, (Voting age reduced to
18)
- 1972 - Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, (Recognition of religions)
- 2005 - Budget Day
- December 8 - Feast of the Immaculate
Conception, for Irish Roman Catholics, a Holy Day of Obligation
- 1757 opening of the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin
- 1922 - execution of Rory O'Connor, Liam Mellowes, Richard Barrett and Joe McKelvey by order of the First Executive Council of the Irish Free State
- 1944 - Córas Iompair Éireann (CIE) set up
- 1757: Rotunda Hospital opened in Dublin
- December 9 - 1922: First meeting of the first Senate of the
Irish Free State
- 1973 - Sunningdale Agreement signed
- December 10 - 1974: Seán
McBride former Minister for External Affairs presented with Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
- 1998: John Hume and David Trimble presented with Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
- December 11 - 1921 Sack of Cork by Black and Tans
- 1931: Statute of Westminster passed by UK Parliament
- 1979: Charles Haughey elected Taoiseach by Dáil
- 1984: Dáil resolution passed setting up the Kerry Babies Tribunal
- December 12 - 1927 first independent Irish coinage circulated
- 1936: Abdication of Edward VIII recognised in the Irish Free State by the enactment of The Executive Authority External Relations Act, 1936
- December 13 - Feast of
Saint Lucy (the following Wednesday, Friday and Saturday were observed as Quarter tense) - December 14 - 1918: Last all-Ireland general election to the UK House of Commons
- December 15 - 1993: Downing Street Declaration issued by UK and Irish Governments
- December 17 - 1834: opening of the first Irish railway - the Dublin and Kingstown Railway
- December 18 - Feast of Saint Flannan patron of the Diocese of Killaloe, County Clare
- December 19 - 1974: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh inaugurated as President of Ireland.
- December 21 1948 The Republic of Ireland Act is signed into law by President Seán T. O'Kelly at Áras an Uachtaráin in the presence of the Government of Ireland (see April 18, 1949)
- December 22 - 1989: death of Samuel Beckett, Saoi of Aosdána
- December 23 - 1920: Government of Ireland Act passed
- December 25 - Christmas Day (Public Holiday), one of
the four Irish Quarter days
- for Irish Roman Catholics, a Holy Day of Obligation
- December 26 - St. Stephen's Day (Public
Holiday)
- 1587 - escape of Hugh Roe O'Donnell from Dublin Castle
- 1940 - consecration of John Charles McQuaid as Archbishop of Dublin
- December 29 - 1937: Constitution of Ireland comes into operation.
- December 31 - 1961: RTÉ, then Telefís Éireann, begins programming
- 1999 - Millennium Eve and Last Light Ceremony
January - Eanáir
- January 1 - New Year's Day, one of the
public holidays in the Republic of Ireland.
- 1871 - The Irish Church Disestablishment Act take effect leading to the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland
- 1926 - 2RN (original radio station of present RTÉ) opened by Douglas Hyde
- 1944 - death of Edward Lutyens, designer of the National War Memorial, Islandbridge
- 1973 - Ireland becomes a member of the European Economic Community (the forerunner of the European Union).
- 1975 - Ireland assumes first
Presidency of the Council of the European Union (see July 1) - 1984 - Galway City begins year long celebration of 500th anniversary (quincentennial) of mayoral status with Festival Eucharist in St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church
- 1985 - Cork City celebrates 800 years as a chartered city
- 1988 - Dublin City (founded AD 988) begins year long celebration of its Millennium year
- 1989 -
Dundalk , Co. Louth, celebrates 1200 years of history - 1990 - Ireland assumes fourth Presidency of Council of the European Union
- 2002 - Euro replaces punt as Irish currency
- 2004 - Ireland assumes sixth Presidency of the Council of the European Union
- January 2 - St. Munchin, Patron of the Diocese of Limerick
- 1905 - First edition of the Irish Independent newspaper
- January 4 - 1986 death of Phil Lynott, member of Thin Lizzy
- January 3 - 1946: execution of William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw
- January 5 - Twelfth Night
- 1839 - The Night of the Big Wind
- 1911 - Protestant church leaders condemn Ne Temere Papal decree on mixed marriages
- 1922 death of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Anglo-Irish explorer
- 1976 - death of John A. Costello former Taoiseach
- January 6 - Little Christmas (Nollaig Bheag)
and/or Women's Christmas (Nollaig na mBan)
- and/or Twelfth Day (the traditional end of the Christmas season), and for Irish Roman Catholics, a Holy Day of Obligation
- January 7 - 1922: Anglo-Irish Treaty ratified by Dáil Éireann
- 1975 death of Sinéad Bean de Valera, nee Sinéad Flanagan aged 96
- January 8 - 1968: Taoiseach Jack Lynch meets Terence
O'Neill in Dublin
- 1979: Betelgeuse incident or Whiddy Island disaster in Bantry Bay
- January 10 - 1910 marriage of Sinéad Flanagan and Éamon de Valera
- 1984: death of Seán McEntee, former Tánaiste
- January 13 - 1941: death of James Joyce
- 1999 - Derek Hill awarded honorary Irish citizenship
- January 14 - 1961 death of Barry Fitzgerald, actor
- January 15 - 1988 death of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Seán McBride
- January 16 - 1922: Michael Collins accepts surrender of Dublin Castle from the Viceroy, Lord Fitzalan
- January 17 - 1860: birth of Douglas Hyde
- January 20 - 1915 death of Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun of Ashford
Castle
- 1968: death of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty
- January 21 -
1919 : Meeting of the First Dáil in the Mansion House, Dublin- Irish War of Independence begins with ambush in Co. Tipperary
- January 22 - 1971: Ireland signs Treaty of Accession to European Economic Community in Brussels
- January 24 - 1901 - Proclamation of Edward VII as King in Dublin Castle
- 1920 death of Percy French, composer
- 1933: Irish general election for the 8th Dáil
- 1957 - Sir Alfred Chester Beatty awarded honorary Irish citizenship
- January 27 - 1967: Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association founded
- January 28 - 1939: death of William Butler Yeats
- 2007 - At a special Ard Fheis, held in the RDS in Dublin, Sinn Féin voted to end its 86-year-old boycott of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)
- January 30 - 1808 work begins on Nelson's Pillar, Dublin.
- 1947 death of Jim Larkin, labour activist
- 1972 - Bloody Sunday in Derry
- January 31 - St. Aidan, Patron of the
Diocese of Ferns
- 1922 First edition of Iris Oifigiúil (the Irish State Gazette), is published
Spring - An tEarrach (February, March and April)
February - Feabhra
- February 1 - Imbolc, Feast of St Brigid (Secondary Patron of Ireland) and Lá Feabhra, the first day of Spring
- 1943 - establishment of the Central Bank of Ireland
- February 2 - Candlemas, more
commonly, in Ireland, called the Presentation of the Lord
- 1882: birth of James Joyce
- 1995: Mary Robinson addresses joint session of Houses of the Oireachtas
- 2000 death of Francis Stuart, writer
- February 3 - feast of Saint Blaise
- 1729 Foundation stone laid of the new Irish Houses of Parliament in College Green
- 1927 - birth of Val Doonican, entertainer and singer
- February 4 - 1948: Irish general election for the 13th Dáil
- February 5 - 1921 death of Katherine Parnell (Kitty O'Shea), widow of Charles Stewart Parnell
- February 6 - Feast of St. Mel, patron of the
Diocese of Ardagh
- 1971 - first British soldier killed in Belfast during The Troubles
- 1997 - Dáil resolution passed setting up the McCracken Tribunal into alleged payments by Dunnes Stores
- February 8 - 1933: First meeting of the 8th Dáil
- February 9 - 1926 birth of Garret FitzGerald, future Taoiseach
- February 13 - 1893: Gladstone introduces second Home Rule bill
- February 14 - St. Valentine's Day (relics of
St. Valentine held in Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin.
- 1468 - 8th earl of Desmond beheaded in Drogheda
- 1981 - Stardust Disaster in Artane, Dublin kills 48.
- February 15 - 1971: Decimal Day- Ireland abandons £sd.
- February 16 - 1932: Irish general election for the 7th Dáil
- February 17 - 1987: Irish general election for the 25th Dáil
- February 18 - 1948 First meeting of the 13th Dáil
- 1948: John A. Costello becomes Taoiseach
- 1981 - Dáil resolution passed setting up Tribunal /Public Inquiry into the Stardust Disaster
- 1982 - Irish general election for the 23rd Dáil
- February 19 - 1366: Statutes of Kilkenny promulgated
- February 24 - 1582: Bull of Pope Gregory XIII, for reform of calendar, issued at Rome
- February 25 - 1949: Noel Browne announces emergency drive to eliminate tuberculosis
- February 28 - 1965 state funeral begins (with reinterment on March 1) of Roger Casement who was executed in 1916
- February 28 - 1973: Irish general election for the 20th Dáil
- 1998 death of Dermot Morgan, actor, comedian and star of Father Ted
March - Márta
- March 1 - 1981: Bobby Sands begins hunger strike in HM Prison Maze
- March 3 - Charter of Trinity College, Dublin granted.
- 1979 - Dái resolution passed setting up a tribunal or Public Inquiry into the disaster at Whiddy Island, also known as the Betelgeuse incident
- March 4 - 1986 death of Edward McLysaght, former Chief Herald of Ireland
- March 5 - Feast of St. Kieran, patron of the
Diocese of Ossory
- 1957 - Irish general election for the 16th Dáil
- March 6 - 1152: Synod of Kells convenes.
- March 7 - 1848: first unveiling of the Irish tricolour (in Waterford).
- 1965 - following the liturgical changes of the Second Vatican Council, Mass in Ireland is read for the first time in the English and Irish languages
- March 8 - 1966: Nelson's Pillar destroyed in explosion
- March 9 - 1932: First meeting of the 7th Dáil
- 1932 - Éamon de Valera elected President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
- 1982 - First meeting of the 23rd Dáil
- March 10 - 1894: Ireland wins Rugby Triple Crown for first time
- 1968 sudden death of Minister for Education, Donagh O'Malley
- 1987 - First meeting of the 25th Dáil
- March 11 - 1987: Dr. Garret FitzGerald resigns as leader of Fine Gael. Succeeded by Alan Dukes
- March 13 - 1979: Ireland joins new European Monetary System (EMS)
- March 14 - 1973: First meeting of the 20th Dáil
- 1991 - Birmingham Six freed
- March 17 - Saint Patrick's Day (public
holiday), and for Irish Roman Catholics, a Holy Day of Obligation
- 1799 and 1940 - Palm Sunday and St. Patrick's Day fall on same date - "the palm and the shamrock worn together".
- March 18 - 1899: Ireland wins Rugby Triple Crown for 2nd time
- 1986 - Honorary Irish citizenship conferred on Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the House of Representatives
- March 20 - 1920 assassination by the British of Thomas McCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork
- 1957: first meeting of the 16th Dáil
- 1964 - death of Brendan Behan, poet, novelist and playwright
- March 21 - 1978 death of Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh former President of Ireland
- March 22 - 1987 Launch of Irish National Lottery
- March 23 - 1971: Brian Faulkner elected PM of Northern Ireland
- March 24 - Feast of Saint Macartan, patron of the
Diocese of Clogher
- 1909: death of John Millington Synge
- 1972: Brian Faulkner resigns as PM of Northern Ireland
- William Whitelaw appointed as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
- March 25 - One of the four Irish Quarter days
- March 26 - 1931 death of Timothy Michael Healy, first Governor-General of the Irish Free State
- 1932 death of Sir Horace Plunkett
- March 28 - 1985 Gaisce, (The
President's Awards]], created
- 2002 - Dáil resolution passed setting up the Morris Tribunal to investigate complaints against some Gardaí in the Donegal Division
- March 29 - 1859: first issue of The Irish Times
- 2004: Smoking ban in all work places introduced in Ireland
- March 30 - 1979: Ireland announces ending of one-for-one parity with sterling.
- March 31 - 1931 death of Lord
Glenavy, (Sir James Henry Mussen Campbell), lawyer, Lord Chancellor of
Ireland 1918-1921, Cathaoirleach of the 1922 Seanad and of the 1925
Seanad
- 1976: The "Sallins Train Robbery"
The last days of March and the first three days of April are known as The Old Cows Days/The Days of the Brindled Cow or, in the Irish language, Laethanta na Riabhaí.
April - Aibreán
- April 1 - April Fool's Day - Lá na nAmadáin
- 1922 - executive powers transferred from UK Government to Irish Provisional Government, thereby achieving executive independence for the 26 counties
- 1943 - creation of the Office of Chief Herald of Ireland to replace Ulster King of Arms approved by Government of Ireland
- 1966 - death of Brian O'Nolan aka Flann O'Brien and Myles na Gopaleen, writer and satirist
- April - 1914: Cumann na mBan founded
- April 4 - 1900
Queen Victoria begins her last visit to Ireland- 1774: death of Oliver Goldsmith
- April 6 - 1926 birth of Ian Paisley, current leader of Democratic Unionist Party
- April 7 - 1720 - Passing of the Declaratory Act 1720
- April 8 - Gladstone introduces first Home Rule bill.
- April 10 - 1966: Commemoration of 50th anniversary of
Easter Rising begins
- 1998, Good Friday Agreement, signed in Belfast.
- April 11 - 1912 - RMS Titanic leaves Co