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List of events
Events from the year 1932 in Ireland .
Incumbents
Events
6 January – sale of the pro-
Fianna Fáil
Derry Journal in
Donegal is briefly prohibited.
[1]
29 January –
Dáil Éireann is dissolved by the
Governor-General ,
James McNeill , bringing ten years of
Cumann na nGaedheal rule to an end.
16 February –
1932 Irish general election , results in formation of the first
Fianna Fáil government under
Éamon de Valera .
March – meteorological observatory moved from
Valentia Island to Westwood House near
Cahirciveen .
[2]
8 March – members of the new
Fianna Fáil government meet with members of the
Labour Party to discuss unemployment, housing, the Oath and other issues.
9 March – Members of the
7th Dáil assemble.
10 March – one of the first actions of the new Fianna Fáil government is the release of 23 political prisoners.
18 March – the new government suspends the Public Safety Act, lifting the prohibition on a number of organisations including the
Irish Republican Army . As a reaction to renewed IRA activity, former
National Army Commandant Ned Cronin founds the Army Comrades Association, known as the
Blueshirts .
[3]
31 March – Dublin Corporation is considering removing
Nelson's Pillar from
O'Connell Street ,
Dublin on the grounds that it is an obstruction to traffic.
19 May – the Constitution (Removal of Oath) Bill is passed in
Dáil Éireann .
21 May –
Amelia Earhart , the first woman to fly solo across the
Atlantic , lands just outside
Derry having taken 14 hours to cross the ocean.
9 June –
Éamon de Valera and some members of his government leave for discussions with the
British Government concerning the Ottawa Conference.
14 June – the first pictures of the atom-splitting apparatus are released. The machine was constructed by Dr.
John Cockcroft and Dr.
Ernest Walton of
Trinity College Dublin .
21 June – ocean liners carrying thousands of pilgrims from the United States,
Lapland and the
Netherlands arrive in Irish ports for the
Eucharistic Congress .
22 June – the 31st International
Eucharistic Congress opens in
Dublin Pro-Cathedral , the greatest gathering of Church dignitaries that Ireland has ever seen. The "
Blue Hussars ", the ceremonial Mounted Escort of the
Irish Army , make their first public appearance as a guard of honour for the Papal Legate,
Cardinal Lauri .
23 June – 2,000 men attend mass at a High Altar in the
Phoenix Park .
24 June – 200,000 women are addressed by the Archbishop of Edinburgh at mass in the Phoenix Park.
26 June – almost a million worshippers attend Pontifical Mass in the Phoenix Park in the final ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress.
30 June – the third
Tailteann Games open in
Croke Park ,
Dublin .
1 August – at the
Los Angeles
Olympic Games ,
Bob Tisdall wins the 400-metre hurdles. Another Irishman, Dr.
Pat O'Callaghan , wins gold in the hammer-throwing event.
18 August – Scottish aviator
Jim Mollison takes off from
Portmarnock Strand to become the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo
transatlantic flight .
[4]
23 August –
Cumann na nGaedheal leader
W. T. Cosgrave criticises
Fianna Fáil 's policy of retaining the land annuities.
26 September –
Éamon de Valera gives his inaugural speech as President of the
League of Nations . He criticises complacent resolutions where the demand is for effective action.
9 October – at a
Cumann na nGaedheal meeting in
County Limerick batons are drawn and shots are fired as
General
Richard Mulcahy tries to address the crowd.
19 October – unemployed Dubliners march through the streets of
Dublin to
Leinster House where they hand in a petition to
Seán T. O'Kelly .
October –
Anglo-Irish Trade War begins.
16 November – the
Prince of Wales travels to
Belfast for the first time to open the new parliament building at
Stormont .
22 November – the new Northern Ireland Parliament building at
Stormont is officially opened.
26 November –
Domhnall Ua Buachalla succeeds
James McNeill as
Governor-General of the Irish Free State .
Arts and literature
Sport
Golf
Births
29 January –
Bernard Cowen ,
Fianna Fáil
TD and Minister of State (died 1984).
31 January –
Pete St. John , born Peter Mooney, folk singer-songwriter (died 2022).
8 February –
Raymond James Boland , Bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph (died 2014).
28 February –
Noel Cantwell , international soccer player (died 2005).
7 March –
Johnny McGovern ,
Kilkenny hurler (died 2022).
10 March –
Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins ,
Fine Gael
TD (died 2022).
29 March –
Richard Burke , Fine Gael politician and European Commissioner (died 2016).
1 June –
Michael Lipper ,
Labour Party politician and
TD (died 1987).
5 June
12 June –
Alfred Cooper , cricketer.
7 July –
Eileen Lemass ,
Fianna Fáil TD and MEP.
20 July –
Ronan Keane , Chief Justice of Ireland.
[8]
2 August –
Peter O'Toole , actor (died 2013).
14 August –
Denis Faul , monsignor, Northern Ireland civil rights activist, chaplain to prisoners in
Maze Prison during
1981 Irish Hunger Strike (died 2006).
21 August –
Gene Fitzgerald ,
Fianna Fáil
TD and MEP (died 2007).
26 August –
Dermot Curtis , soccer player.
3 November –
Albert Reynolds ,
Taoiseach and leader of
Fianna Fáil (died 2014).
15 December –
Edna O'Brien , novelist.
29 December –
Eileen Desmond ,
Labour Party
TD , Cabinet Minister, MEP and
Seanad Éireann member (died 2005).
Full date unknown
Deaths
1 January –
J. J. Clancy ,
Sinn Féin
TD , member of
1st Dáil (b. c1891).
1 January –
Margaret Pearse ,
Fianna Fáil politician, mother of
Patrick Pearse and
Willie Pearse (born
1857 ).
17 January –
Louis Brennan , inventor (born
1852 ).
8 February –
Mad Dog Coll , mob hitman in
New York (born 1908).
26 February –
Robert Donovan , cricketer (born
1899 ).
4 March –
James Henry Reynolds , recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at
Rorke's Drift , South Africa (born
1844 ).
11 March –
Thomas Hunter , member of
1st Dáil representing
Cork North East (born
1883 ).
13 March –
John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson , politician and judge,
Attorney-General for Ireland and Law Lord (born
1844 ).
26 March –
Horace Plunkett , politician, agricultural reformer and writer (born
1854 ).
22 May –
Augusta, Lady Gregory , dramatist and folklorist (born
1852 ).
12 June –
Catherine Coll , mother of
Éamon de Valera (born
1858 ).
27 June –
Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken , civil servant,
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India (born
1847 ).
14 October –
Katherine Plunket , botanical artist and oldest ever person both born and died in Ireland ever (born
1820 ).
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