1929 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Gaelic Games 3.3 Golf 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown

Events

• January 17 - All cats from abroad, except Great Britain, are to be kept in quarantine for a period of six months to avoid rabies.
• February 8 - A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader, Éamon de Valera, to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.
• February 20 - Major-General Seán Mac Eoin, the Blacksmith of Ballinalee, is appointed Chief of Staff of the army.
• April 22 - The first talking film, The Singing Fool starring Al Jolson, opens in the Capitol Theatre in Dublin.
• May 12 - After his resignation from the army Major-General Seán Mac Eoin receives the Cumann na nGaedhael nomination in the Sligo-Leitrim by-election.
  • On the same day Maud Gonne MacBride is arrested and charged with seditious libel against the State.
• June 23 - 300,000 people attend the Pontifical High Mass at the Phoenix Park to mark the end of the Catholic Emancipation centenary celebrations.
• July 11 - The restored General Post Office is officially opened by President W. T. Cosgrave.
• July 22 - The Shannon hydro-electric scheme at Ardnacrusha, County Clare is opened.
• October 21 - The Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme is handed over to the ESB (Electricity Supply Board), bringing electricity to Galway and Dublin.
• Proportional Representation is abolished in Northern Ireland.
• The first Irish banknotes are issued.
• Ireland's economy suffers due to the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
• Primary Certificate - introduced, but optional, at end of primary education

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Shelbourne

• FAI Cup

Winners: Shamrock Rovers 0 - 0, 3 - 0 Bohemians

• St Patrick's Athletic F.C. was founded

Gaelic Games

• The All-Ireland Champions are Cork (hurling) and Kerry (football).

Golf

• Irish Open is won by Abe Mitchell (England).

Births

January to June

• 9 January - Brian Farrell, author, journalist, academic and broadcaster.
• 14 February - Noel Lemass, Jnr, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1976).
• 27 February - Richie Ryan, former Fine Gael TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP.
• 15 March - Paddy Buggy, former Kilkenny hurler, former President of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
• 1 April - Michael O'Herlihy, television director (d.1997).
• 9 April - James McLoughlin, Roman Catholic Bishop of Galway (d.2005).
• 9 June - Shay Gibbons, former international soccer player (d.2006).

July to December

• 11 July - David Kelly, actor.
• 20 August - Kevin Heffernan, Gaelic footballer and manager.
• 9 September - Mervyn Jaffey, cricketer.
• 9 October - Michael Dargan, cricketer.
• 16 October - James Kelly, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the 1970 Arms Trial (d.2003).
• 28 October - Paddy Keaveney, Independent Fianna Fáil TD (d.1995).
• 21 November - Niall Toibin, comedian and actor.

Full date unknown

• Colleen Browning, painter.
• Erskine Childers, writer and broadcaster (d.1996).
• Ulick O'Connor, writer, historian and critic.
• Liam Ó Murchú, television broadcaster.
• Ned Power, Waterford hurler (d.2007).
• Camille Souter, painter.
• Seán South, IRA leader fatally wounded during an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough (d.1957).

Deaths

• February - Jim Connell, political activist, writer of The Red Flag (b.1852).
• 6 March - Thomas Taggart, politician in the United States (b.1856).
• 23 March - William Sears, newspaper proprietor, member of 1st Dáil representing South Mayo, (Pro Treaty).
• 27 April - Austin Stack, Sinn Féin MP and TD, member of 1st Dáil (b.1879).
• 28 April - Alice Stopford Green, Independent member of the Seanad in 1922, 1925 and 1928.
• 29 April - Otto Jaffe, twice elected as Irish Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast (b.1846).
• 5 July - Ted Sullivan, Major League Baseball player and manager (b.1851).
• 12 July - Sir Nugent Everard, 1st Baronet soldier, Seanad member (b.1849).
• 10 October - Rose Mary Barton, artist.
• 18 November - T. P. O'Connor, journalist and Member of Parliament (b.1848).

Full date unknown

• Jer Doheny, Kilkenny hurler (b.1874).
• Grace Rhys, novelist (b.1865).
• Henry Jones Thaddeus, painter (b.1859).

stock | retire
Why are we here?
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
This page is cache of Wikipedia. History