1941 in Ireland
List of events
Events from the year 1941 in Ireland .
Incumbents
Events
2 January – three Carlow women are killed in a night of German bombing in parts of Leinster .
3 January – further German bombing of Dublin .
13 January – the poet and novelist James Joyce dies in Zürich .
24 January – part of the old State Chambers in Dublin Castle are destroyed by fire.
20 February – emergency Scientific Research Bureau set up to seek alternatives to raw materials in short supply.[1]
21 February – first flight by a British Royal Air Force flying boat through the "Donegal Corridor ", Irish airspace between its base in Northern Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean , a concession secretly agreed by Éamon de Valera .[2]
6 March – 3,800 animals are slaughtered after the fiftieth case of foot-and-mouth disease is announced.
20 March – bread rationing is introduced.
21 March – Glencullen (Capt. T. Waldron) and Glencree (Capt. D. McLean) machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Bristol Channel .[3]
22 March: 16:00 hours – collier St. Fintan (Capt. N. Hendry) attacked by two Luftwaffe bombers, off the coast of Pembrokeshire and sunk with all hands – 9 dead.[3]
26 March – Edenvale (Capt. T. Tyrrell) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Bristol Channel .[3]
27 March – Lady Belle (Capt. T. Donohue) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Irish Sea.[3]
2 April – Edenvale (Capt. T. Tyrrell) bombed and machine-gunned (again) by Luftwaffe in Bristol Channel .[3]
15 April – Belfast Blitz : 1,000 people are killed in bombing raids on Belfast . 71 firemen with 13 fire tenders from Dundalk , Drogheda , Dublin and Dún Laoghaire cross the Irish border to assist their Belfast colleagues.
18 April – An RAF Handley Page Hampden aircraft (Registration AD730)[4] [5] gets lost in bad weather and crashes on Black Hill (Kilbeg)[6] above the village of Lacken, County Wicklow killing its entire crew of four.
5 May – Belfast suffers its third bombing raid during World War II . The Dublin government authorises its emergency services to assist.
7 May – Wages Standstill Order.[1]
12 May – Menapia (Capt C Bobels) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe off Welsh coast: 2 wounded.[3]
14 May – five further outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease are reported.
17 May – Glenageary (Capt R. Simpson) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Irish Sea.[3]
19 May – City of Waterford (Capt. W. Gibbons) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe off Welsh coast: 1 wounded.[3]
26 May – a special sitting of Dáil Éireann unanimously condemns the introduction of conscription in Northern Ireland .
27 May – speaking in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom , Prime Minister Winston Churchill rules out the introduction of conscription in Northern Ireland.
30 May – Kyleclare (Capt. T. Hanrahan) bombed off Waterford coast.[3]
31 May – bombing of Dublin in World War II : 34 people are killed when the Luftwaffe bomb part of Dublin .
2 June – Arklow is bombed by the Luftwaffe, with no casualties.
24 July – Dundalk is bombed by the Luftwaffe, with no casualties.
Summer – 16,000 men and boys are employed on county council turf -cutting schemes.[1]
22 August – S.S. Clonlara (Capt. Joseph Reynolds) torpedoed and sunk by U-564 in North Atlantic while in Convoy OG 71 ("Nightmare Convoy"): 13 survivors and 11 dead.[3]
12 October – Charles Stewart Parnell , the uncrowned King of Ireland, is honoured in a huge pageant in Dublin .
November – Brendan Behan is released from Borstal in England and deported to Ireland.
8 December – the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor , Winston Churchill cables the Taoiseach inviting him to join the Allies of World War II .
Arts and literature
Sport
League of Ireland
Winners: Cork United
FAI Cup
Winners: Cork United 2–2, 3–1 Waterford .
Golf
Births
3 January – Derrick O'Connor , actor (died 2018).
10 March – Pat Donnellan , Galway Gaelic footballer.
31 March – Jim O'Keeffe , Fine Gael TD for Cork South-West .
18 April – Michael D. Higgins , Labour Party TD , Cabinet Minister and 9th President of Ireland .
22 May – Caitlín Maude , poet, actress and traditional singer (died 1982).
24 June – Gerard Clifford , Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Armagh .
24 July – Tony Dunne , soccer player.
27 August – Paddy Barry , Cork hurler.
15 September – Tommy Carberry , National Hunt jockey and trainer (died 2017).
18 September – Michael Hartnett , poet (died 1999).
2 October – Donal Moynihan , Fianna Fáil TD .
5 October – Phil Larkin , Kilkenny hurler.
13 October – Mick Doyle , rugby player and coach (died in car crash 2004).
20 October – Mike Murphy , television and radio broadcaster.
11 November – Eddie Keher , Kilkenny hurler.
23 November – Derek Mahon , poet (died 2020).
1 December – Fiachra Trench , musician and composer.
2 December – William Lee , Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (1993– ).
10 December – Fionnula Flanagan , actress. (Fionnghuala Manon Flanagan)
Full date unknown
Deaths
6 January – F. R. Higgins , poet and theatre director (born 1896 ).
10 January – John Lavery , artist (born 1856 ).
13 January – James Joyce , writer and poet (born 1882 ).
15 February – Andrew Jameson , public servant, businessman and Seanad member (born 1855 ).
19 February – Hamilton Harty , conductor and composer (born 1879 ).
13 March – Finlay Jackson , cricketer and rugby player (born 1901).
1 April – Jennie Wyse Power , member of the Seanad from 1922 to 1936.
19 May – Lola Ridge , anarchist poet and editor (born 1873 ).
4 July – William John English , recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Vlakfontein , South Africa (born 1882 ).
19 August – John T. Browne , Mayor of Houston , Texas (born 1845 ).
9 September – William Gerard Barry , painter (born 1864 ).
11 September – John MacLoughlin , elected for 9 years to Seanad from 1922 as an Independent.
11 October – Mildred Anne Butler , painter (born 1858 ).
26 November – James Jackman , recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1941 at Tobruk , Libya ; killed in action the next day (born 1916).
Full date unknown
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