1930 in Ireland

Events from the year 1930 in Ireland.

Incumbents

Events

John Dulanty begins a 20-year spell as Ireland's High Commissioner to London.
31 December – Mayo County Council is dissolved by ministerial order for refusing to appoint Miss Letitia Dunbar-Harrison to the position of county librarian on the grounds that she is a Protestant.

Arts and literature

1 July – George Shiels' play The New Gossoon is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
28 August – a painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, found in an Irish cottage, is authenticated.
17 November – W. B. Yeats' 1-act play The Words Upon The Window Pane is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
Samuel Beckett's first separately issued work, the poem Whoroscope, is published by Nancy Cunard's Hours Press in France.
George Moore publishes Aphrodite in Aulis and A Flood.
'Æ' publishes Enchantment, and Other Poems.

Sport

Births

4 January – Tras Honan, Fianna Fáil politician, twice Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann
7 January – Justin Keating, senior Irish Labour Party politician, Teachta Dála, Cabinet Minister, Member of the European Parliament and member of Seanad Éireann
12 January – Jennifer Johnston, novelist and playwright
18 January – Breandán Ó hEithir, journalist and broadcaster working in Irish and English languages
22 February – David Cremin, Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
30 March – Fergus O'Brien, Fine Gael TD and Minister of State
13 March – Don Cockburn, television newsreader
1 April – Frank Cluskey, leader of the Irish Labour Party
12 April – Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, peer and public servant
26 April – Jack Fitzsimons, architect, member of Seanad Éireann and campaigner
10 May – William McDermott, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huancavélica, Peru
13 June – Billy Ringrose, equestrian
27 June – Enda McDonagh, priest
28 June – William C. Campbell, parasitologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2 July – Maeve Kelly, writer
13 August – Frank Durkan, lawyer in the United States
19 August – Frank McCourt, teacher and writer
29 August – Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Gaelic games commentator for Radio Telifís Éireann
30 August – Kieran Crotty, Fine Gael TD
9 September – Des Hanafin, Fianna Fáil politician, member of Seanad Éireann
14 September – George Eogan, archaeologist, member of Seanad Éireann
26 September – Joe Sherlock, Labour Party TD
1 October – Richard Harris, actor
5 October – Sean Potts, tin whistle player with The Chieftains
11 October – Joan O'Hara, actress
22 October – Philomena Lynott, entrepreneur and memoirist
23 October – Thomas Flanagan, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Antonio
4 November – Gerry Duffy, cricketer
17 November – Brian Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister, senator and presidential candidate
15 December – Edna O'Brien, novelist and short story writer
;Full date unknown
:*Edward Delaney, sculptor
:*Seán Ó Coisdealbha, poet, playwright and actor
:*Bertie Troy, priest, hurler and All-Ireland winning manager with Cork

Deaths

26 September – Dick Fitzgerald, Kerry Gaelic footballer
29 September – Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator
1 October – James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments
31 October – Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony, Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist
30 November – Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and socialist in the United States

1930 in Ireland

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

Golf

Motor racing

Births

Deaths