1 July – Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, hitherto British Representative to Ireland, became the first British Ambassador to Ireland. (Frederick Boland was the first Irish ambassador to the United Kingdom.)
August – Future first lady of the United States Jacqueline Bouvier paid her first visit to Ireland with her step-brother, Hugh D. Auchincloss, following her studies at the Sorbonne. She attended the Dublin Horse Show, visited the Abbey Theatre, and met the Taoiseach, John A. Costello. She and her brother also visited County Cork (where they kissed the Blarney Stone), as well as Galway, Kildare, Killarney, and Tipperary. Bouvier returned in 1955 as the wife of Senator John F. Kennedy, and returned once again in 1967.[2][3]
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