8 January – the Council of State meets for the first time when
PresidentSean T. O'Kelly tests the constitutionality of the Offences Against the State Bill.
15 January – gas rationing ends in
Dublin for the first time since 1942.
18 February – members of the
13th Dáil assemble. De Valera is voted out of office as
Taoiseach after 16 years and
John A. Costello is elected to succeed him as the country's second prime minister and an inter-party
government of the 13th Dáil is formed, the first change of government since 1932.
4 April – Captain E. G. Hitzen hands over a flag surrendered during the 1916
Easter Rising. He also discusses his capture of
Éamon de Valera.
18 June – a 36-foot shark is spotted off the coast of
County Donegal.
22 August – the Dwyer McAllister Cottage at Dernamuck in the Glen of Imaal, Co. Wicklow (scene of rebel leader
Michael Dwyer's escape from British troops in 1799), is handed over to the Irish State by the Hoxey family, with President
Seán T. O'Kelly,
Éamon de Valera and other dignitaries being present at the ceremonial handover.[1]
26 October – final ruling in the
Sinn Féin Funds case decides that the
Sinn Féin party as reconstituted in 1923 is "not in any legal sense a continuation" of the party that had "melted away" in 1922 and is thus unable to claim funds deposited in its name in the
High Court.
^Collins, Peter, Who Fears to Speak of '98'?: Commemoration and the Continuing Impact of the United Irishmen (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2004), p. 61
8 January – the Council of State meets for the first time when
PresidentSean T. O'Kelly tests the constitutionality of the Offences Against the State Bill.
15 January – gas rationing ends in
Dublin for the first time since 1942.
18 February – members of the
13th Dáil assemble. De Valera is voted out of office as
Taoiseach after 16 years and
John A. Costello is elected to succeed him as the country's second prime minister and an inter-party
government of the 13th Dáil is formed, the first change of government since 1932.
4 April – Captain E. G. Hitzen hands over a flag surrendered during the 1916
Easter Rising. He also discusses his capture of
Éamon de Valera.
18 June – a 36-foot shark is spotted off the coast of
County Donegal.
22 August – the Dwyer McAllister Cottage at Dernamuck in the Glen of Imaal, Co. Wicklow (scene of rebel leader
Michael Dwyer's escape from British troops in 1799), is handed over to the Irish State by the Hoxey family, with President
Seán T. O'Kelly,
Éamon de Valera and other dignitaries being present at the ceremonial handover.[1]
26 October – final ruling in the
Sinn Féin Funds case decides that the
Sinn Féin party as reconstituted in 1923 is "not in any legal sense a continuation" of the party that had "melted away" in 1922 and is thus unable to claim funds deposited in its name in the
High Court.
^Collins, Peter, Who Fears to Speak of '98'?: Commemoration and the Continuing Impact of the United Irishmen (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2004), p. 61