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EVENTS

January 29 - Dáil Éireann is dissolved by the Governor-General , James MacNeill . It brings ten years of Cumann Na NGaedhael rule to an end.

March 7 - Dublin Corporation demands the return of the Hugh Lane pictures from the Tate Gallery in London .

March 8 - Members of the new Fianna Fáil government meet with members of the Labour Party to discuss unemployment, housing, the Oath and other issues.

March 10 - One of the first actions of the new Fianna Fáil government is the release of 23 political prisoners.

March 31 - Dublin Coporation is considering removing Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street , Dublin on the grounds that it is an obstruction to traffic.

May 19 - The Constitution (Removal of Oath) Bill is passed in Dáil Éireann .

May 21 - Amelia Earhart , the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, lands just outside Derry having taken 14 hours to cross the ocean.

June 9 - Eamon De Valera and some members of his government leave for discussions with the British Government concerning the Ottawa Conference.

June 14 - The first pictures of the atom-splitting apparatus are released. The machine was constructed by Dr. John Cockcroft and Dr. Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin .

June 21 - Ocean liners carrying thousands of pilgrims from the United States , Lapland and the Netherlands arrive in Irish ports for the Eucharistic Congress.

June 22 - The 31st Eucharistic Congress opens in the Pro-Cathedral in the greatest gathering of Church digitaries that Ireland has ever seen.

June 23 - 200,000 men attend mass at a High Altar in the Phoenix Park .

June 24 - 200,000 women are addressed by the Archbishop of Edinburgh at mass in the Phoenix Park .

June 26 - Almost a million worshippers attend the Pontifical Mass in the Phoenix Park in the final ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress.

June 30 - The Tailteann Games open in Croke Park , Dublin . The games were first organised in 632 BC.

August 1 - At the Los Angeles Olympic Games , Bob Tisdell wins the 400-metre hurdles. Another Irishman, Dr. Pat O'Callaghan , wins gold in the hammer-throwing event.

August 23 - Cumann Na NGaedhael leader W.T. Cosgrave criticises Fianna Fáil 's policy of retaining the land annuities.

September 26 - Eamon De Valera gives his inaugural speech as President of the League of Nations. He criticises complacent resolutions where the demand is for effective action.

October 9 - At a Cumann Na NGaedhael meeting in County Limerick batons are drawn and shots are fired as General Richard Mulcahy tries to address the crowd.

October 19 - Unemployed Dubliners march through the streets of Dublin to Leinster House where they hand in a petition to Seán T. O'Kelly .

November 16 - The Prince of Wales travels to Belfast for the first time to open the new parliament building at Stormont .

November 22 - The new Northern Ireland Parliament building at Stormont is officially opened.

November 26 - Domhnall Ua Buachalla succeeds James MacNeill as Governor-General Of The Irish Free State .

ARTS AND LITERATURE

SPORTS

BIRTHS

August 2 - Peter O'Toole , actor.

November 3 - Albert Reynolds , former Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil .

December 15 - Edna O'Brien , novelist.

December 29 - Eileen Desmond , former Labour Party TD .

DEATHS

May 22 - Augusta, Lady Gregory , dramatist and co-founder of the Irish Literary Theatre .