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Events from the year1941 in Ireland.

• President:Douglas Hyde
• Taoiseach:Éamon de Valera (FF)
• Tánaiste:Seán T. O'Kelly (FF)
• Minister for Finance:Seán T. O'Kelly (FF)
• Chief Justice:Timothy Sullivan
• Dáil:10th
• Seanad:3rd

• 2 January – ThreeCarlow women were killed in a night of German bombing in parts ofLeinster.
• 3 January – Further Germanbombing of Dublin.
• 13 January – The novelist and poetJames Joyce died inZürich.
• 24 January – Part of the old State Chambers inDublin Castle were destroyed by fire.

• 20 February – The emergency Scientific Research Bureau was set up to seek alternatives to raw materials in short supply.^[1]
• 21 February – The first flight by a BritishRoyal Air Force (RAF)flying boat took place through the "Donegal Corridor", Irish airspace between its base inNorthern Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean, a concession secretly agreed byÉamon de Valera.^[2]

• 6 March – 3,800 animals were slaughtered after the 50th case offoot-and-mouth disease was announced.
• 20 March – Bread rationing was introduced.
• 21 March – TheGlencullen (Capt. T. Waldron) andGlencree (Capt. D. McLean) were machine-gunned by theLuftwaffe in theBristol Channel.^[3]
• 22 March: 16:00 hours – The collierSt. Fintan (Capt. N. Hendry) was attacked by two Luftwaffe bombers off the coast ofPembrokeshire in Wales and sank with all hands – nine dead.^[3]
• 26 March – TheEdenvale (Capt. T. Tyrrell) was bombed and machine-gunned by the Luftwaffe in theBristol Channel.^[3]
• 27 March – TheLady Belle (Capt. T. Donohue) was bombed and machine-gunned by the Luftwaffe in the Irish Sea.^[3]

• 2 April – TheEdenvale (Capt. T. Tyrrell) was bombed and machine-gunned (again) by the Luftwaffe in theBristol Channel.^[3]
• 15 April –Belfast Blitz: A thousand people were killed in bombing raids onBelfast. Seventy-one firemen with 13fire tenders fromDundalk,Drogheda,Dublin andDún Laoghaire crossed the Irish border to assist their Belfast colleagues.
• 18 April – An RAFHandley Page Hampden aircraft (Registration AD730)^[4][5] got lost in bad weather and crashed on Black Hill (Kilbeg)^[6] above the village ofLacken, County Wicklow killing its entire crew of four.

• 5 May – Belfast suffered its third bombing raid duringWorld War II. The Dublin government authorised its emergency services to assist.
• 7 May – Wages Standstill Order.^[1]
• 12 May – TheMenapia (Capt C Bobels) was bombed and machine-gunned by the Luftwaffe off the Welsh coast: Two were wounded.^[3]
• 14 May – Five further outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease were reported.
• 17 May – TheGlenageary (Capt R. Simpson) was bombed and machine-gunned by the Luftwaffe in the Irish Sea.^[3]
• 19 May – TheCity of Waterford (Capt. W. Gibbons) was bombed and machine-gunned by the Luftwaffe off the Welsh coast: one person was wounded.^[3]
• 26 May – A special sitting ofDáil Éireann unanimously condemned the introduction of conscription in Northern Ireland.
• 27 May – Speaking in theHouse of Commons of the United Kingdom, Prime MinisterWinston Churchill ruled out the introduction of conscription in Northern Ireland.
• 30 May – TheKyleclare (Capt. T. Hanrahan) was bombed off the Waterford coast.^[3]
• 31 May –Bombing of Dublin in World War II: Thirty-four people were killed when the Luftwaffe bombed part ofDublin.

• Summer – 16,000 men and boys were employed on county councilturf-cutting schemes.^[1]

• 2 June –Arklow was bombed by the Luftwaffe, with no casualties.

• 24 July –Dundalk was bombed by the Luftwaffe, with no casualties.

• 22 August – The S.S.Clonlara (Capt. Joseph Reynolds) was torpedoed and sunk byU-564 in the North Atlantic while inConvoy OG 71 ("Nightmare Convoy"): 13 survivors and 11 dead.^[3]

• 16 September – Sixteen soldiers were killed and 20 were injured – 10 of them terribly – in theGlen of Imaal military training area in County Wicklow when an anti-tank mine exploded while they were receiving instruction in its use. It was the worst loss of life in theIrish Army during peacetime.^[7]

• 12 October –Charles Stewart Parnell, "the uncrowned King of Ireland," was honoured in a huge pageant in Dublin.

• November –Brendan Behan was released fromBorstal in England and deported to Ireland.

• 8 December – The day after theattack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Winston Churchill cabled theTaoiseach inviting him to join theAllies of World War II.

• Myles na gCopaleen's parodic novelAn Béal Bocht was published.
• Donagh MacDonagh'sVeterans, and other poems was published.
• Louis MacNeice's poetryPlant and Phantom and studyThe Poetry of W. B. Yeats were published.^[8]
• Kate O'Brien's novelThe Land of Spices was published; it was prohibited in Ireland by theCensorship of Publications Board.^[9]
• English poetJohn Betjeman became the British press attaché in Dublin, living inClondalkin.
• Opening of the newDublin Airport passenger terminal, designed by Desmond FitzGerald, the first significantInternational Style building in Ireland.

League of Ireland

Winners:Cork United

FAI Cup

Winners:Cork United 2–2, 3–1Waterford.

• TheIrish Open was not played due toThe Emergency (the second world war period in Ireland).

• 3 January –Derrick O'Connor, actor (died 2018).
• 10 March –Pat Donnellan, Galway Gaelic footballer.
• 31 March –Jim O'Keeffe,Fine Gael partyTeachta Dála (TD) forCork South-West.
• 18 April –Michael D. Higgins,Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, and ninthPresident of Ireland.
• 22 May –Caitlín Maude, poet, actress and traditional singer (died 1982).
• 24 June –Gerard Clifford, Roman Catholicauxiliary bishop of theArchdiocese of Armagh.
• 24 July –Tony Dunne, association football 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 party 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 (1993–2013).
• 10 December –Fionnula Flanagan, actress. (Fionnghuala Manon Flanagan)

  Full date unknown

  • Jonathan Bardon, historian and author.
  • James Coleman, installation and video artist.
  • Cyril Dunne, Galway Gaelic footballer.
  • Paddy Flanagan, cyclist (died 2000).
  • Eamon Grennan, poet.
  • Sean Matgamna,Trotskyist theorist.

• 6 January –F. R. Higgins, poet and theatre director (born 1896).
• 10 January –John Lavery, artist (born 1856).
• 13 January –James Joyce, novelist and poet (born 1882).
• 15 February –Andrew Jameson, public servant, businessman andSeanad 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 theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 atVlakfontein, 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 nine 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 atTobruk, Libya; killed in action the next day (born 1916).

  Full date unknown

  • Sidney Royse Lysaght, writer (born 1856).

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