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January 2 - Three Carlow women are killed in a night of bombing in parts of Leinster .

January 13 - The poet and novelist James Joyce dies in Switzerland.

January 24 - Part of the old State Chambers in Dublin Castle are destroyed by fire.

March 6 - 3,800 animals are slaughtered after the fiftieth case of ''foot & mouth'' disease is announced.

March 20 - Bread rationing is introduced.

bombers, off the coast of Pembrokeshire and sunk with all hands - 9 dead.

April 15 - The Belfast Blitz 1,000 people are killed in bombing raids on Belfast . 71 Fire Men with 13 Fire Tender s from Dundalk , Drogheda , Dublin , and Dún Laoghaire crossed the Irish border to assist their Belfast colleagues.

May 5 - Belfast suffers its third bombing raid during World War II . The Dublin government authorises its emergency services to assist.

May 14 - Five outbreaks of ''foot and mouth diesase'' are reported in Ireland.

May 26 - A special sitting of Dáil Éireann unanimously condemns the intoduction of conscription in Northern Ireland .

May 27 - Speaking in the House Of Commons Prime Minister Winston Churchill rules out the introduction of conscription in the North.

May 31 - 34 people are killed when the Luftwaffe bomb part of Dublin .

August 22 - S.S. Clonlara torpedo and sunk by ''U-564'' in North Atlantic , while in Convoy OG71 - 11 dead.

October 12 - Charles Stewart Parnell , ''the uncrowned King of Ireland,'' is honoured in a huge pageant in Dublin .

SPORTS

BIRTHS

April 18 - Michael D. Higgins , Labour Party TD and former Cabinet Minister.

October 13 - Mick Doyle , former rugby player and coach.

DEATHS

January 13 - James Joyce , writer and poet.