1932 in Ireland

Events

*January 29 - Dáil Éireann is dissolved by the Governor-General, James McNeill. It brings ten years of Cumann na nGaedhael rule to an end.
*March 7 - Dublin Corporation demands the return of the Hugh Lane pictures from the Tate Gallery in London.
*March 8 - Members of the new Fianna Fáil government meet with members of the Labour Party to discuss unemployment, housing, the Oath and other issues.
*March 10 - One of the first actions of the new Fianna Fáil government is the release of 23 political prisoners.
*March 31 - Dublin Corporation is considering removing Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street, Dublin on the grounds that it is an obstruction to traffic.
*May 19 - The Constitution (Removal of Oath) Bill is passed in Dáil Éireann.
*May 21 - Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, lands just outside Derry having taken 14 hours to cross the ocean.
*June 9 - Éamon de Valera and some members of his government leave for discussions with the British Government concerning the Ottawa Conference.
*June 14 - 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.
*June 21 - Ocean liners carrying thousands of pilgrims from the United States, Lapland and the Netherlands arrive in Irish ports for the Eucharistic Congress.
*June 22 - The 31st Eucharistic Congress opens in the Pro-Cathedral in the greatest gathering of Church digitaries that Ireland has ever seen.
*June 23 - 200,000 men attend mass at a High Altar in the Phoenix Park.
*June 24 - 200,000 women are addressed by the Archbishop of Edinburgh at mass in the Phoenix Park.
*June 26 - Almost a million worshippers attend the Pontifical Mass in the Phoenix Park in the final ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress.
*June 30 - The Tailteann Games open in Croke Park, Dublin. The games were first organised in 632 BC.
*August 1 - At the Los Angeles Olympic Games, Bob Tisdell wins the 400-metre hurdles. Another Irishman, Dr. Pat O'Callaghan, wins gold in the hammer-throwing event.
*August 23 - Cumann na nGaedhael leader W. T. Cosgrave criticises Fianna Fáil's policy of retaining the land annuities.
*September 26 - 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.
*October 9 - At a Cumann na nGaedhael meeting in County Limerick batons are drawn and shots are fired as General Richard Mulcahy tries to address the crowd.
*October 19 - Unemployed Dubliners march through the streets of Dublin to Leinster House where they hand in a petition to Seán T. O'Kelly.
*November 16 - The Prince of Wales travels to Belfast for the first time to open the new parliament building at Stormont.
*November 22 - The new Northern Ireland Parliament building at Stormont is officially opened.
*November 26 - Domhnall Ua Buachalla succeeds James McNeill as Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*League of Ireland::Winners: Shamrock Rovers

*FAI Cup::Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1 - 0 Dolphins

Golf

*Irish Open is won by Alf Padgham (England).

Births

January to June

*15 January - Tom McEllistrim, Jnr, Fianna Fáil TD (d.2000).
*29 January - Bernard Cowen, Fianna Fáil TD and Minister of State (d.1984).
*28 February - Noel Cantwell, former international soccer player (d.2005).
*10 March - Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins, former Fine Gael TD.
*15 March - Paddy Crowley, soccer player (d.2006).
*1 June - Michael Lipper, Irish Labour Party politician and TD (d.1987).
*5 June - Christy Brown, author, painter and poet (d.1981).
*5 June - Ronnie Dawson, rugby player.
*12 June - Alfred Cooper, cricketer.

July to December

*7 July - Eileen Lemass, former Fianna Fáil TD and MEP.
*2 August - Peter O'Toole, actor.
*14 August - Denis Faul, monsignor, Northern Ireland civil rights activist, chaplin to prisoners in Maze Prison during 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (d.2006).
*21 August - Gene FitzGerald, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (d.2007).
*26 August - Dermot Curtis, soccer player.
*3 November - Albert Reynolds, former Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil.
*15 December - Edna O'Brien, novelist.
*29 December - Eileen Desmond, Irish Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, MEP and Seanad Éireann member (d.2005).

Full date unknown

*Anne Madden, painter.
*Johnny McGovern, Kilkenny hurler.

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 (b.1857).
*17 January - Louis Brennan, inventor (b.1852).
*8 February - Mad Dog Coll, mob hitman in New York (b.1908).
*26 February - Robert Donovan, cricketer (b.1899).
*4 March - James Henry Reynolds, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Rorke's Drift, South Africa (b.1844).
*11 March - Thomas Hunter, member of 1st Dáil representing Cork North East.
*13 March - John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson, politician and judge, Attorney-General for Ireland and Law Lord (b.1844).
*26 March - Horace Curzon Plunkett, politician, agricultural reformer and writer (b.1854).
*22 May - Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist and folklorist (b.1852).
*12 June - Catherine Coll, mother of Éamon de Valera (b.1858).
*27 June - Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, civil servant, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India (b.1847).
*14 October - Katherine Plunket, botanical artist and longest-lived Irish person ever (b. 1820).