1945 in Ireland

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See also: 1944 in Ireland, other events of 1945, 1946 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.

1 Events
2 Arts and literature
3 Sport
- 3.1 Football
4 Births
5 Deaths

[edit] Events

January 1 - Most traffic in the Irish Free State comes under the control of Córas Iompair Éireann.
January 12 - The people of Ireland donate £100,000 to the starving people of Italy.
April 13 - Dáil Éireann sits for 20 minutes to express sympathy and pay tribute to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died yesterday. The House is then adjourned
April 27 - Fine Gael nominate General Seán MacEoin as their presidential election candidate in opposition to the Minister for Finance Seán T. O'Kelly.
May 2 - In one of the most controversial episodes of his premiership, An Taoiseach Éamon de Valera calls on the German Ambassador to express his sympathy following the death of Adolf Hitler.
May 7 - Reports of a German surrender bring students of Trinity College Dublin onto the roof singing the English and French national anthems. A riot ensues following the burning of the Irish tricolour.
May 16 - Éamon de Valera replies in a radio broadcast to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.
June 25 - Seán T. O'Kelly is inaugurated as the second President of Ireland.
August 21 - Two nationalist MPs take the Oath of Allegiance and enter the Westminster parliament.
September 16 - Count John McCormack, the famous tenor, dies in Dublin aged 61.
October 15 - Professor Eoin MacNeill dies in Dublin aged 77. He was a founder-member of the Gaelic League and the Irish Volunteers.
December 3 - Oranges go on sale in Ireland for the first time since the end of World War II.
December 14 - The Nuremberg Trials hear the story of German plans to create a revolution in Ireland during the War.
December 25 - In his presidential address President O'Kelly asks the youth of Ireland to make a particular effort to restore the Irish language.