8 January – The Council of State met for the first time when PresidentSean T. O'Kelly tested the constitutionality of the Offences Against the State Bill.
15 January – Gas rationing ended in Dublin for the first time since 1942.
18 February – Members of the 13th Dáil assembled. De Valera was voted out of office as taoiseach after 16 years and John A. Costello was elected to succeed him as the country's second prime minister. An inter-party government of the 13th Dáil was formed, the first change of government since 1932.
11 March – A fire at Shannon Airport destroyed the control tower.
16 March – Seán MacBride represented Ireland at the Marshall Aid conference in Paris.
April
3 April – British officer Captain Edo John Hitzen returned a Flag of Truce surrendered at the Boland's Mill garrison during the 1916 Easter Rising. He also discussed his capture of Éamon de Valera, and returned his binoculars to him.[1]
June
18 June – A 36-foot shark was spotted off the coast of County Donegal.
August
22 August – The Dwyer McAllister Cottage at Dernamuck in the Glen of Imaal, County Wicklow (scene of rebel leader Michael Dwyer's escape from British troops in 1799), was handed over to the Irish State by the Hoxey family, with President Seán T. O'Kelly, Éamon de Valera, and other dignitaries present at the ceremonial handover.[2]
September
7 September – In Ottawa, Canada Taoiseach John A. Costello announced that the government intended to repeal the 1936 External Relations Act, thus severing the last constitutional link with Britain.
13 September – Five hundred people attended a commemoration of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 on the hills overlooking Belfast.
17 September – The body of poet W. B. Yeats (died 1939) was carried home from France on the Irish naval corvetteLÉMacha for reburial in Drumcliff, County Sligo.[3]
17 October – At the request of the British Prime MinisterClement Attlee, the Minister for Finance, Seán MacBride, and the Minister for External Affairs, Patrick McGilligan, met representatives from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to discuss the repeal of the External Relations Act.
26 October – A final ruling in the Sinn Féin Funds case decided that the Sinn Féin party, as reconstituted in 1923, was "not in any legal sense a continuation" of the party that had "melted away" in 1922 and was thus unable to claim funds deposited in its name in the High Court.
25 November – The Republic of Ireland Bill was passed in Dáil Éireann.
December
21 December – President Seán T. O'Kelly signed the Republic of Ireland Bill at a ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin, the president's residence. Taoiseach John A. Costello and members of his government were also present.
28 November – D. D. Sheehan, journalist, barrister, author, Irish Parliamentary Party MP representing Mid Cork (1901–1918), one of four MPs to serve in the 16th (Irish) Division in World War I (born 1873).
↑ Collins, Peter, Who Fears to Speak of '98'?: Commemoration and the Continuing Impact of the United Irishmen (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2004), p. 61
↑ Foster, Roy (2003). W. B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. II: The Arch-Poet 1915–1939. Oxford University Press. p.656. ISBN978-0-19-818465-2.
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