1941 in Ireland

1941 in Ireland

Events

*January 2 - Three Carlow women are killed in a night of bombing in parts of Leinster.
*January 13 - The poet and novelist James Joyce dies in Switzerland.
*January 24 - Part of the old State Chambers in Dublin Castle are destroyed by fire.
*March 6 - 3,800 animals are slaughtered after the fiftieth case of "foot & mouth" disease is announced.
*March 20 - Bread rationing is introduced.
*March 21 - "Glencullen" (Capt. T. Waldron) and "Glencree" (Capt. D. McLean) machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Bristol Channel.
*March 22 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.
*March 26 "Edenvale" (Capt. T. Tyrrell) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Bristol Channel
*March 27 "Lady Belle" (Capt. T. Donohue) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Irish Sea.
*April 2 "Edenvale" (Capt. T. Tyrrell) bombed and machine-gunned (again) by Luftwaffe in Bristol Channel
*April 15 - The Belfast blitz 1,000 people are killed in bombing raids on Belfast. 71 fire men with 13 fire tenders from Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, and Dún Laoghaire crossed the Irish border to assist their Belfast colleagues.
*May 5 - Belfast suffers its third bombing raid during World War II. The Dublin government authorises its emergency services to assist.
*May 12 - "Menapia" (Capt C Bobels) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe off Welsh coast - 2 wounded.
*May 14 - Five outbreaks of "foot and mouth diesase" are reported in Ireland.
*May 17 - "Glenageary" (Capt R. Simpson) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe in Irish Sea.
*May 19 - "City of Waterford" (Capt. W. Gibbons) bombed and machine-gunned by Luftwaffe off Welsh coast. 1 wounded
*May 26 - A special sitting of Dáil Éireann unanimously condemns the introduction of conscription in Northern Ireland.
*May 27 - Speaking in the British House of Commons Prime Minister Winston Churchill rules out the introduction of conscription in the North.
*May 30 "Kyleclare" (Capt. T. Hanrahan) bombed off Waterford coast.
*May 31 - Bombing of Dublin in World War II: 34 people are killed when the Luftwaffe bomb part of Dublin.
*August 22 - "S.S. Clonlara" (Capt. Joseph Reynolds) torpedoed and sunk by "U-564" in North Atlantic, while in convoy OG71 ("Nightmare Convoy") - 13 survivors and 11 dead.
*October 12 - Charles Stewart Parnell, "the uncrowned King of Ireland," is honoured in a huge pageant in Dublin.

port

Football

*League of Ireland::Winners: Cork United

*FAI Cup::Winners: Cork United 2 - 2, 3 - 1 Waterford.

Golf

*Irish Open is not played due to The Emergency.

Births

*31 March - Jim O'Keeffe, Fine Gael TD for Cork South West.
*18 April - Michael D. Higgins, Labour Party TD and former Cabinet Minister.
*24 June - Gerard Clifford, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Armagh.
*24 July - Tony Dunne, former soccer player.
*27 August - Paddy Barry, former Cork hurler.
*18 September - Michael Hartnett, poet (d.1999).
*2 October - Donal Moynihan, former Fianna Fáil TD.
*13 October - Mick Doyle, rugby player and coach, killed in car crash (d.2004).
*20 October - Mike Murphy, former television and radio broadcaster.
*11 November - Eddie Keher, former Kilkenny hurling player.
*2 December - William Lee, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (1993 - ).
*10 December - Fionnuala Flanagan, actress.

Full date unknown

*Jonathan Bardon, historian and author.
*James Coleman, installation and video artist.
*Enda Colleran, former Gaelic footballer (d.2004).
*Paddy Flanagan, cyclist (d.2000).
*Eamon Grennan, poet.
*John Keogh, soccer player.
*Phil Larkin, former Kilkenny hurler.
*Caitlín Maude, poet, actress and traditional singer (d.1982).
*Derrick O'Connor, actor.
*Fiachra Trench, musician and composer.

Deaths

January to June

*6 January - F. R. Higgins, poet and theatre director (b.1896).
*10 January - John Lavery, artist (b.1856).
*13 January - James Joyce, writer and poet (b.1882).
*15 February - Andrew Jameson, public servant, businessman and Seanad member (b.1855).
*19 February - Hamilton Harty, conductor and composer (b.1879).
*13 March - Finlay Jackson, cricketer and rugby player (b.1901).
*19 May - Lola Ridge, anarchist poet and editor (b.1873).
*4 July - William John English, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Vlakfontein, South Africa (b.1882).
*19 August - John T. Browne, Mayor of Houston, Texas (b.1845).
*11 September - John MacLoughlin, elected for 9 years to Seanad from 1922 as an Independent.
*26 November - James Jackman, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1941 at Tobruk, Libya. Killed in action the next day. (b.1916).

Full date unknown

*William Gerard Barry, painter (b.1864).
*Mildred Anne Butler, painter (b.1858).
*Sidney Royse Lysaght, writer (b.1860).


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