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January 3 - An Anglo-Irish Coal-Cattle Pact is signed between the governments of Britain and the Irish Free State .

January 20 - 40 men from the Connemara Gaeltacht travel to County Meath to inspect the area which is to be settled by residents of the Gaeltacht .

January 27 - Relics and souvenirs of the 1916 Easter Rising arrive at the National Museum.

February 19 - Workmen unearth a statue of Jesus during excavations for road making in County Clare .

March 3 - In his Lent en pastoral the Bishop of Galway denounces immodest dress and vulgar films. Membership of Trinity College Dublin is still forbidden for Catholic s and membership of the IRA and Communist organisations remain Mortal Sin s.

March 20 - After 17 days the Army intervenes in the bus strike at the request of the Minister For Industry & Commerce by providing lorries for transport.

March 26 - 72 republicans are arrested and held at the Bridewell Garda Station.

April 1 - The National Athletics and Cycling Association is suspended from the International Amateur Athletic Federation for refusing to confine its activities to the Free State side of the border.

April 12 - Eleven families from the Connemara Gaeltacht arrive in County Meath to set up the Rath Cairn Gaeltacht.

July 14 - 5 people are killed and 70 are injured as a result of Sectarian rioting in Belfast .

July 17 - George Russell (AE), poet, essayist, artist and economist, dies aged 68.

October 26 - Lord Edward Carson , the Dublin -born Unionist leader and barrister, is buried in Belfast .

December 7 - This day is a bad day for Irish sport. The Ireland National Rugby Union Team team is beaten by New Zealand and the Irish Soccer team is beaten by the Netherlands .

December 16 - Foynes in County Limerick is chosen to be the European terminal of a tranatlantic air service.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

SPORTS

BIRTHS

March 6 - Ronnie Delany , former Irish athlete.

October 21 - Derek Bell , harpist and composer.

DEATHS

July 17 - George William Russell (AE), nationalist and poet.

October 22 - Edward Carson , former leader of the Irish Unionists .