1933 in Ireland

Events

*February 4 - Fianna Fáil, led by Éamon de Valera, win their first overall majority in Dáil Éireann. He is welcomed in his own constituency in County Clare where 77 horsemen and 77 torchbearers who light 77 tar barrels in honour of the 77 seats won by the party.
*February 21 - Representatives from the Netherlands and Germany arrive in Galway to inspect the site of a proposed new £3 million airport.
*February 22 - General Eoin O'Duffy is removed from his post as Commissioner of an Garda Síochána.
*February 27 - Four people die in the great snowstorm that is gripping the country.
*March 2 - A vote to remove the Oath of Allegiance is carried by 71 to 38.
*March 17 - Éamon de Valera gives a State reception in St. Patrick's Hall of Dublin Castle, the first since the foundation of the state.
*April 17 - Ireland's first parachute jump, executed by Joseph Gilmore, is successful.
*May 3 - In Dáil Éireann the Bill to abolish the Oath of Allegiance is passed.
*August 10 - General Eoin O'Duffy outlines his proposals for remodelling parliament. He favours a system of representatives from vocational and professional groups.
*August 15 - The Cistercian Abbey at Mount Melleray, County Waterford celebrates its centenary.
*September 2 - The United Ireland Organisation is formed as Cumann na nGaedhael, the National Centre Party and the National Guard agree to merge under the leadership of Eoin O'Duffy. W. T. Cosgrave will lead the party in Dáil Éireann.
*September 14 - The United Ireland movement, which has adopted the title 'Fine Gael', will contest the general election in October as a political party.
*December 8 - The Blueshirts are banned by the Fianna Fáil government.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*League of Ireland::Winners: Dundalk

*FAI Cup::Winners: Shamrock Rovers 3 - 3, 3 - 0 Dolphins

Golf

*Irish Open is won by Bob Kenyon (England).

Births

January to June

*1 January - Jeremiah Coffey, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sale, Australia.
*11 March - Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh, physicist responsible for the O'Raifeartaigh Theorem and the O'Raifeartaigh Model of supersymmetry breaking (d.2000).
*27 April - Liam Tuohy, soccer player and manager.
*14 May - Frank Harte, singer and song collector (d.2005).
*23 June - Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, journalist, broadcaster, chairman Bord na Gaeilge, president Conradh na Gaeilge (d.2003).

July to December

*14 July - John Beresford, 8th Marquess of Waterford, peer.
*22 July - Tommy Traynor, soccer player (d.2006).
*18 August - Fiachra Ó'Ceallaigh OFM, Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin (1994 -).
*20 August - Michael O'Halloran, politician in the UK (d.1999).
*11 September - Amby Fogarty, soccer player.
*September - Michael Howard, former Fine Gael Senator.
*29 October - Joseph Cassidy, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.
*5 December - Edward Daly, former Catholic Bishop of Derry.
*15 December - Sam Stephenson, architect (d.2006).

Full date unknown

*John Bennett, Cork hurler.
*Kieran Carey, Tipperary hurler (d.2007).
*Fergus Crawford, soccer player (d.1985).
*Liam Hyland, former Fianna Fáil Senator, TD and MEP.
*Jack Mahon, former Gaelic footballer with Galway (d.2005.
*Martin O'Donoghue, economist, former Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and Seanad Éireann member.
*Tony O'Donohue, former municipal politician in Toronto, Canada.
*John O'Leary, former Fianna Fáil TD.
*Frank Prendergast, former Irish Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick.
*Owen Walsh, artist (d.2002).

Deaths

January to June

*21 January - George Moore, novelist, poet, art critic and dramatist (b.1852).
*January - Bowman Malcolm, railway engineer (b.1854).
*7 March - Thomas O'Shaughnessy, lawyer and judge (b.1850).
*19 March - E. Temple Thurston, poet, playwright and author (b.1879).
*16 June - Denis O'Donnell, entrepreneur (b.1875).
*29 June - Countess of Desart, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad and remained a member until her death.

July to December

*1 July - P. H. McCarthy, labour leader and mayor of San Francisco (b.1863).
*10 July - Francis Fitzpatrick, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 during an attack on Sekukuni's Town, South Africa (b.1859).
*2 August - James McCombs, politician in New Zealand (b.1873).
*7 December - James Cullen, priest and mathematician (b.1867).
*8 December, John Joly, scientist (b.1857).

Full date unknown

*Caspar Phair, Gold Commissioner in British Columbia.

ee also

*Anglo-Irish Trade War