1938 in Ireland

Events

* January 17 - The Ford Motor Works in Cork City produces its 25,000th car to be built there.
* April 13 - The Department of Local Government & Public Health reports that cases of typhoid and diphtheria have reduced, however, infant deaths have increased.
* April 21 - Douglas Hyde is selected unanimously by the two main political parties to serve as the first President of Ireland.
* April 26 - The text of the Anglo-Irish Agreement is published. The agreement results in the transfer of the ports at Cobh, Berehaven and Lough Swilly in return for a one-off payment of £10 million.
* May 10 - The government makes an order converting the "Saorstát pound" to the "Irish pound" as part of the new constitutions reforms.
* May 24 - The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a unionist-controlled Derry Corporation.
* June 25 - Douglas Hyde is formally inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
* July 11 - Three Cork Harbour forts are returned to the Irish Government.
* August 8 - Dublin Corporation purchases 16 sets of traffic lights.
* August 21 - The £50,000 20,000-seat Cusack Stand is officially opened at Gaelic Athletic Association haedquarters in Croke Park.
* September 12 - Éamon de Valera is elected President of the Assembly of the League of Nations in geneva.
* October 3 - Britain's last forts in the 26 counties are handed back to the people of Ireland.
* December 17 - The Gaelic Athletic Association confirms that the President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, will cease to be a patron of the organisation because of his attendance at an international soccer match.

port

Football

*League of Ireland::Winners: Shamrock Rovers

*FAI Cup::Winners: St James' Gate 2 - 1 Dundalk

Golf

*Irish Open is won by Bobby Locke (South Africa).

Births

January to June

*30 January - Mick Lanigan, former Fianna Fáil Senator.
*2 February - Detta O'Cathain, Baroness O'Cathain, businesswoman and politician in Britain.
*29 April - Ray MacSharry, former Tánaiste, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and European Commissioner.
*2 May - Douglas Goodwin, cricketer.
*13 May - Patrick Dineen, cricketer.
*3 June - John Jesus Flanagan, Limerick-born winner of three hammer-throwing Olympic gold medalist for the United Sates. (b. 1873)

July to December

*2 July - John McDonnell, head coach for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks track team.
*15 July - Andy McEvoy, soccer player (d.1994).
*July - Owen Dudley Edwards, historian and writer.
*July - Seán Ó Cionnaith, Workers Party of Ireland politician (d.2003).
*1 August - Paddy Moloney, musician with The Chieftains.
*3 August - Terry Wogan, BBC broadcaster and former RTE radio and television broadcaster.
*5 October - Frank Patterson, tenor (d.2000).
*16 October - Gerard Collins, former Fianna Fáil TD for Limerick West, Cabinet Minister and Member of the European Parliament.
*29 October - John Kirby, Bishop of Clonfert.

Full date unknown

*John Behan, sculptor.
*Gerald Davis, artist (d.2005).
*Pa Dillon, former Kilkenny hurler.
*Jim Lane, Irish republican and socialist.
*John Moriarty, writer and philosopher (d.2007).
*Úna O'Connor, former camogie player.
*Niall Williams, writer.

Deaths

*24 February - Thomas Gann, doctor, archaeologist and writer (b.1867).
*3 June - John Jesus Flanagan, three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw (b.1873).
*27 July - Tom Crean, Antarctic explorer and publican (b.1877).
*4 August - William Moxley, representative from Illinois' 6th congressional district (b.1851).
*8 September - Robert Henry Woods, Irish Unionist MP (b.1865).
*21 October - Sir John Purser Griffith, member of the Seanad.
*7 November - James Murray Irwin, British Army doctor (b.1858).
*12 December - James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (b.1869).