1923 in Ireland

Events

*January 13 - Beechpark, the residence of President W. T. Cosgrave in Dublin, is set on fire.
*January 10 - An order is signed creating the Revenue Commissioners.
*January 22 - The Minister for Education, Eoin MacNeill, announces that Irish is to become a subject for examination in the Civil Service.
*February 18 - An amnesty for IRA Irregulars expires on this day. It was introduced by the Minister for Home Affairs, Kevin O'Higgins.
*April 10 - Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff of the Irregulars, is wounded and captured. His subsequent death in Clonmel is also announced by the army.
*April 14 - Austin Stack is captured by Free State troops at the foot of the Knockmealdown Mountains.
*April 30 - Thousands turn up to greet Jim Larkin as he returns to Ireland after a nine year absence.
*May 28 - The government releases two captured documents issued by the IRA on May 24. The letters, signed by Éamon de Valera and Frank Aiken call for the dumping of arms and the ending of armed struggle. The Civil War is officially over.
*July 20 - Éamon de Valera appeals to the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic for $100,000 to fight the upcoming general election.
*August 15 - Éamon de Valera is arrested at an election meeting in Ennis, County Clare.
*September 17 - 33 members present themselves at Leinster House for the swearing in of the new Dáil. No anti-Treaty republicans attend.
*September 19 - The Fourth Dáil meets for the first time at Leinster House. Michael Hayes is elected Ceann Comhairle and W. T. Cosgrave is elected President of the Executive Council.
*October 15 - The Mallow Viaduct over the River Blackwater is officially re-opened by President W. T. Cosgrave.
*November 14 - The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to poet and playwright William Butler Yeats.

Full date unknown

* The Royal Bank of Ireland bought the Irish Free State business of the Belfast Banking Company, which in turn bought the Northern Ireland business of the Royal Bank of Ireland. "See Allied Irish Banks."

Arts and literature

*William Butler Yeats awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

ports

Football

*League of Ireland::Winners: Shamrock Rovers

*FAI Cup::Winners: Alton United 1 - 0 Shelbourne

*Belfast side Alton United of the Falls District League are shock winners of the Free State Cup beating Shelbourne 1-0 in the final at Dalymount Park. Clubs and leagues in republican areas of Northern Ireland had affiliated to the FA of the Irish Free State after the 1921 split from the Belfast based Irish Football Association.

Gaelic Games

*The All-Ireland Champions are Galway (hurling) and Dublin (football)

Births

January to June

*2 January - Cathal Goulding, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and the Official IRA (d.1998).
*15 January - Tommy Eglington, soccer player (d.2004).
*31 January - Joseph Burke, cricketer.
*9 February - Brendan Behan, poet, novelist and playwright (d.1964).
*20 March - Con Martin, soccer player and manager.
*8 April - Edward Mulhare, actor (d.1997).
*2 May - Patrick Hillery, former Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister, European Commissioner and sixth President of Ireland.
*May - Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin, journalist, author and broadcaster.
*23 June - Peter Corr, international soccer player and father of The Corrs members (d.2001).

July to December

*8 July - John P. Wilson, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister, former Cavan Gaelic footballer (d.2007).
*23 September - Seán Treacy, former Labour Party Teachta Dála for Tipperary South, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann.
*29 October - Paddy Donegan, former Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (d.2000).
*10 November - Tommy Moroney, soccer and rugby player (d.1981).
*17 December - Dennis Flynn, soldier in Canada, Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (d.2003).
*21 December - Scott Huey, cricketer.
*25 December - Jim Tunney, former Fianna Fáil TD, Minister of State and Lord Mayor of Dublin (d.2002).

Full date unknown

*Seán Condon, Cork hurler (d.2001).
*Tommy Maher, former Kilkenny hurler and coach.
*Kathleen Mills, camogie player (d.1996).

Deaths

*28 January - George Richardson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1859 at Kewane Trans-Gogra, India (b.1831).
*25 March - Thomas Joseph Crean, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Tygerkloof Spruit, South Africa (b.1873).
*10 April - Liam Lynch, commanding general of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War, shot and killed (b.1893).
*17 April - Laurence Ginnell, nationalist, lawyer and politician, member of 1st Dáil (b.1854).
*23 April - Seán Etchingham, Sinn Féin politician, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister.
*29 April - Robert Carew, 3rd Baron Carew (b.1860).
*11 June - Herbert Trench, poet (b.1865).
*9 August - O'Moore Creagh, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Kam Dakka, Afghanistan (b.1848).
*20 October - Thomas MacPartlin, trade union official, elected to 1922 Seanad.
*9 November - Maurice Healy, lawyer, politician and MP (b.1859).
*20 November - Denny Barry, Irish Republican, died during hunger strike, shortly after the Irish Civil War (b.1883).

Full date unknown

*Edward Martyn, playwright and activist (b.1859).