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List of events
Events from the year 1939 in Ireland .
Incumbents
Events
11 January – The Congress of the
Irish National Teachers' Organisation in
Galway called on
the Government to abolish the ban on married women teachers.
12 February – The Department of External Affairs announced that it recognised the government of
Francisco Franco in Spain.
February – In his
Lenten
pastoral ,
Bishop Daniel Mageean referred to "
A Protestant Parliament for a Protestant People ".
12 March –
Taoiseach
Éamon de Valera attended the coronation of
Pope Pius XII in Rome.
16 March – Éamon de Valera was greeted by
Benito Mussolini in Rome and a luncheon was held in his honour.
22 March –
Irish neutrality was discussed during a
Dáil debate on defence estimates. The Government considered the implications for the export market to Britain if a neutral stand was taken.
30 March – The Treason Bill passed its fifth and final stage in
Dáil Éireann .
9 April – The
Gaelic Athletic Association voted to keep the name of the President,
Douglas Hyde , off its list of patrons. The situation arose when Hyde attended an international soccer game.
15 April – Boxer
Jack Doyle married Mexican film actress
Movita Castaneda in a civil ceremony in
Ensenada, Baja California ,
Mexico .
[1]
17 April – The
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland ,
Lord Craigavon , dismissed as cowardly the Irish Government's position of neutrality.
19 April – In a speech to
Seanad Éireann (the Senate) Taoiseach Éamon de Valera referred to the dropping of all references to the King and Great Britain from new Irish passports.
30 April – The
1939 New York World's Fair opened with an Ireland pavilion designed by
Michael Scott .
[2]
4 May – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland announced that conscription would not be extended to
Northern Ireland .
18 May – The Earl of Iveagh presented the Government with his townhouse in
Dublin .
2 June – The Treason Act 1939 became law: a sentence of death could be passed on anyone convicted of "levying war against the State."
29 June –
Clann na Talmhan , the National Agricultural Party, was founded in
Athenry .
1 July – The
Irish Red Cross Society was established.
1 September –
A state of emergency was declared by the Government when Germany invaded Poland.
[3]
[4]
2 September – Taoiseach Éamon de Valera told the Dáil that Ireland will remain neutral in the European War.
3 September
18 September –
John F. Kennedy flew from
Foynes , County Limerick for his first transatlantic flight, to
Port Washington, New York , after helping with arrangements for survivors of the SS Athenia .
[6]
[7]
9 September – Billed as "The Last Race in Europe" until after World War II, the Irish Motor Racing Club held its
Phoenix Park Race; this included motorcycle and car races.
[8]
11 September – The Irish-flagged tanker Inverliffey was shelled and sunk by the Nazi submarine,
U-38 . The U-boat towed the lifeboats away from the blazing oil.
13 September – The
Minister for Supplies ,
Seán Lemass , introduced petrol rationing.
6 October – Austrian
theoretical physicist
Erwin Schrödinger took up residence in Dublin at the invitation of Éamon de Valera.
[9]
30 October – More than two dozen air-raid sirens, acquired by
Dublin Corporation , were tested across Dublin.
November – The teenage
Brendan Behan , at this time a member of the
Irish Republican Army , was arrested in
Liverpool for possession of explosives.
December – The
Supreme Court of Ireland declared the detention without trial of Irish Republican Army members to be illegal.
[10]
10 December – The German
Nazi propaganda radio station Irland-Redaktion began broadcasting to Ireland in the
Irish language .
[10]
23 December – A million rounds of ammunition were stolen from the national arsenal at the
Phoenix Park by the Irish Republican Army.
Arts and literature
Sport
League of Ireland
Winners:
Shamrock Rovers
FAI Cup
Winners:
Shelbourne 1–1, 1–0
Sligo Rovers . English footballer,
Dixie Dean played in the final for Rovers.
Golf
Births
7 January –
Tom Kiernan , rugby player and coach.
25 January –
Dermot Clifford ,
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of the
Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly .
2 February –
Desmond O'Malley , politician, TD (1968–2002) and leader of the
Progressive Democrats (1985-1993) (died
2021 ).
19 February –
Ted Carroll ,
Kilkenny
hurler (died
1995 ).
25 March –
Tom Fitzgerald , Fianna Fáil Senator.
1 April –
Joe Jacob , Fianna Fáil TD and
Minister of State .
11 April –
Joe Burke , accordionist (died 2021).
13 April –
Seamus Heaney , poet (died 2013).
24 April –
Joe McCartin ,
Member of the European Parliament ,
Senator .
3 May –
Ken Hope , cricketer.
9 May –
Pádraig Flynn , Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and
European Commissioner .
19 May –
John Sheahan , violinist, folk musician and composer, with
The Dubliners .
29 May –
Mary Banotti ,
Fine Gael politician.
25 June –
Garech Browne , patron of the arts (died 2018).
5 July –
Hugh Byrne (died 2023).
11 July –
Mick Brown , football scout.
16 August –
Seán Brady ,
Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.
21 August –
Ray McLoughlin , international rugby player.
5 September –
Mark Killilea Jnr , Fianna Fáil TD and Member of the European Parliament.
10 September –
Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany , artist.
12 September –
Patrick Harrington ,
Bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodwar in
Kenya .
11 October –
Austin Currie , founder-member of the
Social Democratic and Labour Party and Fine Gael TD (died
2021 ).
16 October –
Joe Dolan , singer (died 2007).
27 October –
Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl , peer.
October – Frank Columb, writer.
2 November –
John Buckley , Bishop of Cork and Ross (1997 – ).
November –
Ollie Conmy , international soccer player.
16 December –
Barney McKenna , musician.
Full date unknown
Michael Coady , poet, short story writer, local historian, genealogist, photographer, journalist and musician (died
2024 ).
Paddy FitzGerald ,
Cork hurler.
Alice Hanratty , painter and printmaker.
Paddy Moran ,
Kilkenny hurler.
Denis Murphy ,
Cork hurler.
Éamonn O'Doherty , sculptor (died 2011).
[15]
Deaths
28 January –
W. B. Yeats , poet and dramatist, in France (born 1865).
2 February –
Amanda McKittrick Ros , novelist and poet (born 1860).
[16]
9 May –
Mary Williams , previously Mary, Lady Heath, aviator, athlete and writer (born 1896).
9 June –
Owen Moore , actor (born 1886).
28 June –
James Charles Dowdall , businessman and independent member of the 1922
Seanad (born 1873).
19 July –
John Cassidy , sculptor and painter (born 1860).
20 August –
Edward Bulfin ,
British general during World War I (born 1862).
8 September –
Maurice George Moore , soldier and independent member of the 1922 Seanad (born 1854).
15 September –
William MacCarthy-Morrogh , cricketer (born 1870).
20 September –
Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin , astronomer (born 1865).
10 November –
Charlotte Despard ,
suffragist ,
novelist and
Sinn Féin activist (born 1844).
14 December –
Samuel Lombard Brown , independent member of 1922 Seanad and barrister (born 1858).
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"Defence Forces (Requisitions of Emergency) Order, 1939" . Irish Statute Book . Retrieved 29 July 2012 .
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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^ The Irish Motor News , Thursday, 21 September 1939.
^ Daugherty, Brian.
"Brief Chronology" . Erwin Schrödinger . Archived from
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ISBN
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"Chekhov in Ireland" . Archived from
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