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List of events
Events from the year 1930 in Ireland .
Incumbents
Events
John Dulanty begins a 20-year spell as Ireland's High Commissioner (later, Ambassador) to London.
[1]
31 December –
Mayo County Council is dissolved by ministerial order for refusing to appoint Miss
Letitia Dunbar-Harrison to the position of county librarian on the grounds that she is a Protestant.
[2]
Arts and literature
Sport
Golf
Motor racing
Births
4 January –
Tras Honan , Fianna Fáil politician, twice Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann
7 January –
Justin Keating , senior Irish Labour Party politician, Teachta Dála, Cabinet Minister, Member of the European Parliament and member of Seanad Éireann (died 2009)
12 January –
Jennifer Johnston , novelist and playwright
18 January –
Breandán Ó hEithir , journalist and broadcaster working in Irish and English languages (died 1990)
22 February –
David Cremin , Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
30 March –
Fergus O'Brien , Fine Gael TD and Minister of State
13 March –
Don Cockburn , television newsreader (died 2017)
1 April –
Frank Cluskey , leader of the Irish Labour Party (died 1989)
12 April –
Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick , peer and public servant (died 2003)
26 April –
Jack Fitzsimons , architect, member of Seanad Éireann and campaigner (died 2014)
10 May –
William McDermott , Bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Huancavélica , Peru
13 June –
Billy Ringrose , equestrian (died 2020)
27 June –
Enda McDonagh , priest (died 2021)
28 June –
William C. Campbell , parasitologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
13 August –
Frank Durkan , lawyer in the United States (died 2006)
19 August –
Frank McCourt , teacher and writer (died 2009)
29 August –
Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh , Gaelic games commentator for Radio Telifís Éireann
30 August –
Kieran Crotty , Fine Gael TD
9 September –
Des Hanafin , Fianna Fáil politician, member of Seanad Éireann (died 2017)
26 September –
Joe Sherlock , Labour Party TD (died 2007)
1 October –
Richard Harris , actor (died 2002)
5 October –
Sean Potts , tin whistle player with The Chieftains (died 2014)
11 October –
Joan O'Hara , actress (died 2007)
22 October –
Philomena Lynott , entrepreneur and memoirist (died 2019)
23 October –
Thomas Flanagan , Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Antonio (died 2019)
4 November –
Gerry Duffy , cricketer
17 November –
Brian Lenihan , Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister, senator and presidential candidate (died 1995)
15 December –
Edna O'Brien , novelist and short story writer
Full date unknown
Deaths
26 September –
Dick Fitzgerald , Kerry Gaelic footballer (born
1882 )
29 September –
Bryan Mahon , British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (born
1862 )
1 October –
James Whiteside McCay , Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (born
1864 )
31 October –
Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony , Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist (born
1850 )
30 November –
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones , labor and community organizer, member of the
Industrial Workers of the World , and socialist in the United States (born
1830 )
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