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EVENTS

January 17 - The Ford Motor Works in Cork City produces its 25,000th car to be built there.

April 13 - The Department of Local Government & Public Health reports that cases of typhoid and diphtheria have reduced, however, infant deaths have increased.

April 21 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is selected unanimously by the two main political parties to serve as the first President Of Ireland .

April 26 - The text of the Anglo-Irish Agreement is publised. The agreement results in the transfer of the ports at Cobh, Berehaven and Lough Swilly in return for a one-off payment of £10 million.

May 10 - The government makes an order converting the "Saorstát pound" to the " Irish Pound " as part of the new constitutions reforms.

May 24 - The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a unionist-controlled Derry Corporation.

June 25 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is formally inaugurated as the first President Of Ireland .

July 11 - Three Cork Harbour forts are returned to the Irish Government .

August 8 - Dublin Corporation purchases 16 sets of traffic lights.

August 21 - The £50,000 20,000-seat Cusack Stand is officially opened at GAA haedquarters in Croke Park .

September 12 - Eamon De Valera is elected President of the Assembley of the League Of Nations in Geneva .

October 3 - Britain 's last forts in the 26 counties are handed back to the people of Ireland.

December 17 - The GAA confirms that the President Of Ireland , Dr. Douglas Hyde , will cease to be a patron of the organisation because of his attendance at an international soccer match.

SPORTS

BIRTHS

April 29 - Ray MacSharry , former Tánaiste , Fianna Fáil TD , Cabinet Minister and European Commissioner .

August 1 - Paddy Moloney , musician with The Chieftains .

August 3 - Terry Wogan , BBC broadcaster.

DEATHS

June 27 - Tom Crean , explorer and publican.