1935 in Ireland

Events from the year 1935 in Ireland.

Incumbents

Events

January

3 January – An Anglo-Irish Coal-Cattle Pact was signed between the governments of Britain and the Irish Free State.
20 January – Forty men from the Connemara Gaeltacht travelled to County Meath to inspect the area which was to be settled by residents of the Gaeltacht.
27 January – Relics and souvenirs of the 1916 Easter Rising arrived at the National Museum.

February

28 February – The Criminal Law Amendment Act dealt with various sexual offences. Section 17 explicitly made the import or sale of contraceptive devices illegal.

March

3 March – In his Lenten pastoral, Thomas O'Doherty, Bishop of Galway, denounced immodest dress and vulgar films. Membership of Trinity College Dublin was still forbidden for Catholics and membership of the Irish Republican Army and Communist organisations remained mortal sins.
20 March – After 17 days of a bus strike, the army intervened at the request of the Minister for Industry and Commerce by providing lorries for transport.
26 March – Seventy-two Republicans were arrested and held at the Bridewell Garda station.

April

1 April – The National Athletics and Cycling Association was suspended from the International Amateur Athletic Federation for refusing to confine its activities to the Free State side of the British-Irish border.
12 April – Eleven families from the Connemara Gaeltacht arrived in County Meath to set up the Ráth Cairn Gaeltacht.

July

14 July – Five people were killed and seventy injured as a result of sectarian rioting in Belfast. This results in Sectarian rioting across Ireland.

October

26 October – Edward Carson, the Dublin-born Unionist leader and barrister, was buried in Belfast.
27 October – Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will was presented at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. The event was organised by the German Legation and was attended by about 200 people. Gardaí Síochána, who feared the screening would be disrupted by communists, provided heavy protection inside and outside the theatre, and noted the attendance of the minister for lands and fisheries, Senator Joseph Connolly, as well as diplomats from Belgium, France, Germany, and Poland. Another Nazi film, Hitlerjunge Quex, was also shown about a teenage Hitler Youth, Herbert "Quex" Norkus, who was murdered by communists.

November

9 November – Arranmore boat tragedy: 19 of 20 on board were killed when a yawl ran aground on the crossing from Burtonport.

December

7 December – The Ireland national rugby union team was beaten by New Zealand and the Irish association football team was beaten by the Netherlands.
16 December – Foynes in County Limerick was chosen to be the European terminal of a transatlantic flying boat air service.

Undated

In the first major investigation into political corruption in Ireland since the formation of the Free State, the "Wicklow Gold Inquiry" cleared the Minister for Industry and Commerce Seán Lemass of wrongdoing in the granting of mining licences in County Wicklow to Fianna Fáil party politicians.
William Magner began commercial cider production in Clonmel, County Tipperary.

Arts and literature

2 April – First meeting of the Irish Folklore Commission, set up by the government under the direction of Séamus Ó Duilearga to study and collect information on folklore and traditions.
12 August – Seán O'Casey's play The Silver Tassie, set in World War I and premièred in 1929 in London, was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, where it proved to be controversial.
23 September – The fourth Theatre Royal opened in Dublin.
Samuel Beckett published his poetry, Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates.
Sinéad de Valera produced her play Cluichidhe na Gaedhilge.
Oliver St. John Gogarty published his first prose work, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street: A Phantasy in Fact.
Norah Hoult published her novel Holy Ireland.
Louis MacNeice published his Poems.
W. B. Yeats published his poetry A Full Moon in March.

Sport

Association football

;League of Ireland
:Winners: Dolphins
;FAI Cup
:Winners: Bohemians 4–3 Dundalk

Golf

The Irish Open was won by Ernest Whitcombe.

Births

11 January – Colm O'Reilly, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise.
16 January – William Walsh, Bishop of Killaloe.
9 February – Liam Kavanagh, Labour Party teachta dála representing Wicklow, Member of the European Parliament.
18 February – Ciarán Bourke, singer
20 February – Bríd Rodgers, Social Democratic and Labour Party Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland) and minister.
21 February – Brian Mullooly, Fianna Fáil party politician, twice Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann.
23 February – Tom Murphy, playwright.
4 March – Don Davern, Fianna Fáil TD for Tipperary South 1965–1968.
6 March – Ronnie Delany, athlete.
1 April – Billy Whelan, association footballer.
22 April – Tim Pat Coogan, newspaper editor and historian.
25 April – [John Boland (Roman Catholic Church|Catholic Bishop)|John Boland], Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia.
5 May – Eddie Linden, poet and editor.
15 May – Barry Desmond, Labour Party TD, cabinet minister and Member of the European Parliament.
16 June – Peter Rice, structural engineer.
18 June – Jimmy Brohan, Cork hurler.
July – Arthur Ryan, businessman.
11 July – Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician
20 July – Hugh Coveney, Fine Gael party TD and cabinet minister, yachtsman.
4 August – Michael J. Noonan, Fianna Fáil TD and cabinet minister.
13 August – Brendan Comiskey, Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Ferns.
16 September – Charles McDonald, Fine Gael politician, Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann 1981–1982.
29 September – Ian Lewis, cricketer.
16 October – Fred Tiedt, boxer.
27 November – Johnny Byrne, writer and script editor.
4 December – Noel Peyton, association football player.
8 December – Michael Woods, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin North-East and cabinet minister.
;Full date unknown
:*Pauline Bewick, artist.
:*Eddie Fullerton, Sinn Féin party councillor.
:*Pádraig Ó Snodaigh, Irish language activist, poet, writer and publisher.
:*Bob Quinn, filmmaker, writer and photographer.

Deaths

23 March – Robert Browne, Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Cloyne.
8 April – Patrick Joseph Sullivan, mayor of Casper, Wyoming and Republican member of the United States Senate for Wyoming.
17 July – George William Russell, critic, poet, essayist, artist and economist.
22 July – William Mulholland, water service engineer in Southern California.
9 August – James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, businessman and philanthropist.
15 September – Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet, peer, member of parliament and senator .
22 October – Edward Carson, Unionist leader, barrister and judge.