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← 1923 1922 1921 1920 1919 1924 in Ireland → 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
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See also:	1924 in Northern Ireland Other events of 1924 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1924 in Ireland.

• Governor-General:Tim Healy
• President of the Executive Council:W. T. Cosgrave (CnaG)
• Vice-President of the Executive Council:Kevin O'Higgins (CnaG)
• Minister for Finance:Ernest Blythe (CnaG)
• Chief Justice:Hugh Kennedy (from 24 June 1924)
• Dáil:4th
• Seanad:1922 Seanad

• 15 January – The last internee atKilmainham Gaol,Ernie O'Malley, was transferred to St. Bricin's Military Hospital.
• 7–18 March – A crisis occurred in theNational Army, theIrish Army Mutiny, over proposals to reduce the army's size after theIrish Civil War. It was led byLiam Tobin'sIrish Republican Army Organisation. The outcome affirmed subservience of the military to the civilian government.^[1]
• 20 April –Sinn Féin commemorated the eighth anniversary of the events of the 1916Easter Rising.
• 24 April – No agreement was reached at the Boundary Conference inLondon. TheIrish Boundary Commission was then set up to examine the border between theIrish Free State andNorthern Ireland.
• 5 May –Dublin Corporation officially renamed Sackville Street toO'Connell Street.
• 6 May –James Craig refused to nominate aNorthern Ireland representative to the Boundary Commission.
• 30 May – A new licensing bill was introduced by theMinister for Justice,Kevin O'Higgins. Bars were allowed to open between 9 a.m. and 10 p.m., and the sale of alcohol was limited to those over the age of 18.
• 5 June – In an austerity budget, theMinister for Finance, the only Northern Ireland Protestant to serve on a Republic of Ireland cabinet,Ernest Blythe brought in the Old Age Pensions Act 1924, which cut the pension by ten percent, from ten shillings to nine shillings (ten shillings being the equivalent of £181 in 2014). Blythe's action is remembered with bitterness in Ireland .
• 3 July – TheMinister for Education,Eoin MacNeill, announced that the teaching ofIrish was to be made compulsory in all schools.
• 2–18 August –Tailteann Games were held inDublin.^[2]
• 18 August – Ireland's firstrodeo opened atCroke Park.
• 1 October – TheDefence Forces were established, incorporating theNational Army.
• 24 October –Éamon de Valera was arrested atNewry Town Hall for defying an order preventing him from speaking inNorthern Ireland.
• 7 November – ThePresident of the Executive Council,W. T. Cosgrave, announced an amnesty for criminal acts committed during theCivil War in connection with the attempt to overthrow the lawfully established government.
• 19 November – CardinalMichael Logue,Archbishop of Armagh andPrimate of All Ireland, died, having held office since 1887, and was succeeded byPatrick O'Donnell.
• 19 December –Dáil Éireann passed theIntoxicating Liquor Act. The law reducedpub opening hours, and closed them on Saint Patrick's Day, Good Friday, and Christmas Day.^[3][4]
• Undated:Urney Chocolates moved to the disused World War I eraRAFairfield ofTallaght Aerodrome, County Dublin. The site had been handed over to the Irish Air Service in May 1922.^[5][6][7][8]

• 3 March –Seán O'Casey's dramaJuno and the Paycock opened at theAbbey Theatre, Dublin.^[9]
• May – In theArt competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris,Jack Butler Yeats won a silver medal for the paintingSwimming (later known asThe Liffey Swim).
• Donn Byrne published the novel,Blind Raftery and His Wife Hilaria.
• Daniel Corkery published a study of 18th century Irish poetry,The Hidden Ireland.
• George Moore published the novel,Peronnik the Fool.
• Liam O'Flaherty published his short story collection,Spring Sowing.
• W. B. Yeats published the drama,The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems.
• Eileen Gray began work withJean Badovici on their modernist villaE-1027 atRoquebrune-Cap-Martin in thesouth of France.^[10]
• Mainie Jellett andEvie Hone staged an exhibition of theirabstract art in Dublin.^[11]

• League of Ireland

  Winners:Bohemians

  FAI Cup

  Winners:Athlone Town 1–0Fordsons (played on 17 March atDalymount Park, Dublin)

• The All-Ireland Champions wereDublin inhurling andKerry inGaelic football.

• January –Rena Dardis, publisher.
• 14 January –Francis Gerard Brooks, Bishop of Dromore (1976–1979; died 2010).
• 25 January –Tomás Mac Giolla,Teachta Dála (TD) and leader of theWorkers' Party (died 2010).
• 28 January –Sonny Hool, cricketer (died 1988).
• 8 March –Sean McClory, actor (died 2003).
• 13 March –Myrtle Allen, chef (died 2018).^[12]
• 26 May –Sheelagh Murnaghan, onlyUlster Liberal PartyMember of Parliament atStormont (died 1993).
• 30 May –Tom Leonard,Fianna Fáil party TD (died 2004).
• 26 June –Dermot Ryan,Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (died 1985).
• 14 July –Mick Kennefick,Cork hurler (died 1982).
• 3 August –Jim Gibbons, Fianna Fáil TD,Member of the European Parliament and Cabinet Minister (died 1997).
• 14 August –Maeve Hillery,anaesthetist and wife of the sixthPresident of Ireland,Patrick Hillery.
• 21 August –David Marcus, writer (died 2009).
• 7 September –Donal Creed,Fine Gael party TD andMember of the European Parliament (died 2017).
• 5 October –Kieron Moore, actor (died 2007).
• 29 October –Tom Clancy, singer.
• 21 December –Christy O'Connor Snr, golfer (died 2016).
• Approximate date –George Redmond, Assistant City and County Manager inDublin, accused of corruption (died 2016).

• 29 March –Charles Villiers Stanford, composer (born 1852).
• 18 May –James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon,Deputy Lieutenant inIreland (born 1850).
• 26 May –Victor Herbert, composer, cellist and conductor (born 1859).
• 5 June –William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel, peer andLiberal politician (born 1833).
• 6 June –William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman (born 1847; died at sea).
• 20 June –James Nowlan, President of theGaelic Athletic Association (1901–1921) (born 1855).
• 12 December –William Carrigan, Canon of theDiocese of Ossory and historian (born 1860).
• Full date unknown –Anne Marjorie Robinson, miniature painter (born 1858).

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