- 1945 in Ireland
Events
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January 1 - Most traffic in the Irish Free State comes under the control of Córas Iompair Éireann.
*January 12 - The people of Ireland donate £100,000 to the starving people ofItaly .
*April 13 -Dáil Éireann sits for 20 minutes to express sympathy and pay tribute to US PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt , who died yesterday. The House is then adjourned
*April 27 -Fine Gael nominateSeán Mac Eoin as their presidential election candidate in opposition to the Minister for FinanceSeán T. O'Kelly .
*May 2 - In one of the most controversial episodes of his premiership,Taoiseach Éamon de Valera calls on the German Ambassador to express his sympathy following the death ofAdolf Hitler .
*May 7 - Reports of a German surrender bring students ofTrinity College Dublin onto the roof singing the English and French national anthems. A riot ensues following the burning of the Irish tricolour.
*May 16 -Éamon de Valera replies in a radio broadcast toWinston Churchill 's criticism of Irish neutrality.
*June 25 -Seán T. O'Kelly is inaugurated as the secondPresident of Ireland .
*August 21 - Two nationalist MPs take the Oath of Allegiance and enter theWestminster parliament.
*September 16 - CountJohn McCormack , the famous tenor, dies inDublin aged 61.
*October 15 - ProfessorEoin MacNeill dies inDublin aged 77. He was a founder-member of theGaelic League and theIrish Volunteers .
*December 3 - Oranges go on sale in Ireland for the first time since the end ofWorld War II .
*December 14 - TheNuremberg Trials hear the story of German plans to create a revolution in Ireland during the War.
*December 25 - In his presidential address PresidentSeán T. O'Kelly asks the youth of Ireland to make a particular effort to restore theIrish language .Arts and literature
port
Football
*League of Ireland::Winners: Cork United
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FAI Cup ::Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1 - 0 Bohemians.Golf
*Irish Open is not played due to The Emergency.
Births
January to March
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8 January -Kevin Conneff , bodhrán player and singer withThe Chieftains .
*12 January -Tony Maher , Cork hurler.
*2 February - Billy Morgan, Cork Gaelic footballer and manager.
*12 February -Jimmy Keaveney , Dublin Gaelic footballer.
*17 February -Brenda Fricker , actress.
*17 March -Paddy Mulligan , soccer player.
*March -Bernard Durkan ,Fine Gael TD for Kildare North.April to June
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2 April -Batt O'Keeffe ,Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North West and Minister of State.
*8 April -Diarmuid Martin , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin andPrimate of Ireland .
*18 April -Margaret Hassan , aid worker inIraq , kidnapped and murdered by Iraqi insurgents (d.2004).
*20 April -Alan Dukes , former leader ofFine Gael and TD, Director General of theInstitute of European Affairs .
*26 April -Séamus Kirk ,Fianna Fáil TD for Louth.
*27 April -Dinny McGinley ,Fine Gael TD forDonegal South West .
*4 May - Jim Higgins, formerFine Gael TD, Senator and MEP.
*7 May -Christy Moore ,folk singer .
*1 June -Jarlath McDonagh , formerFine Gael politician.
*6 June -Denis Coughlan , Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
*20 June -Denis Brennan , Bishop of Ferns (2006 - ).
*30 June -Sean Scully , painter.
*June -Nora Owen , formerFine Gael TD and Minister for Justice.July to December
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1 July - Jack Wall,Labour Party (Ireland) TD for Kildare South.
*11 July -Patrick Joseph McGrath , secondRoman Catholic Bishop of San Jose in California.
*July -John Dardis , formerProgressive Democrats Senator.
*3 August -Eamon Dunphy , former footballer, commentator and broadcaster.
*12 September -Maria Aitken , actress, writer and director.
*13 September -Niall FitzGerald , businessman.
*15 September -Donie Cassidy ,Fianna Fáil TD representing Longford-Westmeath, businessman.
*20 September -Eamonn Walsh , formerIrish Labour Party TD, local councillor.
*September -Gerald McCarthy , Corkhurling manager and former player.
*19 November -Christie Hennessy , folk singer songwriter (d.2007).
*8 December -John Banville , novelist.
*17 December -John Neill ,Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, Bishop of Glendalough,Primate of Ireland , and Metropolitan.
*24 December -Noel Davern , Fianna Fáil TD representing Tipperary South, Cabinet Minister,Member of the European Parliament .Full date unknown
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Richie Bennis , Limerickhurling manager.
*Niamh Bhreathnach , senior Labour Party politician, formerly Minister for Education.
*Éamonn Cregan , former Limerick Gaelic footballer and hurler, manager.
*Susan Denham , Judge of theSupreme Court of Ireland .
*Alexis FitzGerald, Jnr , formerFine Gael TD and Senator.
*Justin McCarthy, former Cork hurler, Waterfordhurling manager.
*Eddie O'Brien, former Cork hurler.
*Bernard O'Donoghue , poet and academic.
*Philip Pettit , philosopher and political theorist.
*Kieran Purcell , former Kilkenny hurler.
*Pad Joe Whelahan , Offaly hurler, manager.Deaths
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30 January -Patrick Belton ,Fianna Fáil andCumann na nGaedheal TD, President of the anti-communist Irish Christian Front (b.1885).
*4 April -Henry Seymour Guinness , served as an Independent member of theSeanad from1922 .
*24 July -Kitty Kiernan , fiancée of the assassinated Michael Collins (b.1892).
*3 October -Dermod O'Brien , painter (b.1865).
*13 October -Joseph Cardinal MacRory , Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh andPrimate of All Ireland (b.1861).
*15 October -Eoin MacNeill , scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (b.1867).
*24 October - Frederick Field,Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet andFirst Sea Lord (b.1871).
*6 December -Edmund Dwyer-Gray , politician and 29thPremier of Tasmania in 1939 (b.1870).
*20 December -John M. Lyle , architect inCanada (b.1872).
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