1936 in Ireland

Events

*February 9 - Brian de Valera, the third son of Éamon de Valera dies tragically in a horse-riding accident aged 21.
*March 5 - 500 delegates attend the Fine Gael - United Ireland Party Árd-Feis in Dublin. W. T. Cosgrave is once again nominated as its president.
*April 4 - A dispute between two unions over who makes coffins results in the coffin of an abandoned infant being turned away from Glasnevin Cemetery.
*May 27 - Aer Lingus makes its first flight. The five-seater plane, "Iolar," travels from Baldonnell to Bristol.
*May 28 - The Dáil passes a motion abolishing the Senate of the Irish Free State.
*June 20 - The IRA is (again) declared an illegal organisation by the government.
*November 20 - General Eoin O'Duffy leads 600 men in his Bandera to fight for Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Source [http://www.geocities.com/irelandscw/top-Contents-OD.htm articles about the Bandera.]
* December 12- The Executive Authority (External Relations) Act 1936 is passed, which legislates for the abdication of King Edward VIII and passes the throne to Prince Albert, Duke of York.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*League of Ireland::Winners: Bohemians

*FAI Cup::Winners: Shamrock Rovers 2 - 1 Cork

Golf

*Irish Open is won by Reg Whitcombe (England).

Births

January to March

*January - Syd Cheatle, playwright and novelist.
*2 February - Fergal O'Hanlon, Irish Republican Army member killed with Seán South attacking the Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough (d.1957).
*2 February - Tony Ryan, businessman and philanthropist, founder of Guinness Peat Aviation and one of founders of Ryanair (d.2007).
*12 February - Monica Barnes, former Fine Gael Teachta Dála.
*17 February - Joe Haverty, soccer player.
*18 February - Ciaran Bourke, musician, one of the original members of the The Dubliners (d.1988).
*3 March - Christopher Jones, Bishop of Elphin (1994 - ).
*11 March - Pat Brady, soccer player.
*15 March - David Andrews, former Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and Chairman of the Irish Red Cross.
*March - Vincent Brady, Fianna Fáil politician, served as Government Chief Whip and Minister for Defence.

April to June

*1 April - Gerry O'Sullivan, Labour Party (Ireland) TD, Minister of State and Lord Mayor of Cork (d.1994).
*7 April - Mick McGrath, soccer player and manager.
*19 April - Séamus Pattison, Labour Party TD and former Ceann Comhairle.
*1 May - Colm Hilliard, Fianna Fáil TD (d.2002).
*7 May - Tony O'Reilly, former rugby player and businessman.
*8 May - Michael O'Leary, former Tánaiste and Labour Party leader (d.2006).
*6 June - William Murphy, Bishop of Kerry (1995 - ).
*8 June - Michael O'Leary, former leader of the Labour Party, Tánaiste and Cabinet Minister.
*9 June - Mick O'Dwyer, former Gaelic footballer and manager.

July to September

*5 July - Brendan Halligan, economist and former Irish Labour Party politician.
*6 July - Dave Allen, comedian (d.2005).
*9 July - Bobby Molloy, former Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrats TD and Cabinet Minister.
*13 August - James Moriarty, Bishop of the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin.
*23 August - Godfrey Graham, cricketer.
*15 September - Máirín Quill, former Progressive Democrats TD.
*24 September - John Magee SPS, Bishop of Cloyne (1987 - ), former private secretary to Pope John Paul II.
*27 September - Barry Cogan, former Fianna Fáil TD and Senator.
*September - Big Tom, singer and musician.

October to December

*5 October - Brian Hannon, Bishop of Clogher from 1986 to 2001.
*21 October - William Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse, peer.
*27 November - Feargal Quinn, businessman, founder of Superquinn, independent member of Seanad Éireann.
*12 December - Noel Sheridan, actor, artist, Director National College of Art and Design (1979 - 2003).
*16 December - Jim Fitzsimons, former Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP.

Full date unknown

*Brian Bourke, artist.
*Gerard Brady, senior Fianna Fáil politician, served as Minister for Education.
*Jim Kemmy, Irish Labour Party and Democratic Socialist Party TD (d.1997).
*Brendan Kennelly, poet and novelist, Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College Dublin.
*Patrick Masterson, writer and Professor (Emeritus), University College Dublin.
*Mattie McDonagh, former Gaelic footballer with Galway (d.2005).

Deaths

January to June

*10 January - William Kenny, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1914 near Ypres, Belgium (b.1880).
*20 January - George V of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (b. 1865).
*26 January - Francis O'Neill, police officer in America and collector of Irish traditional music (b.1848).
*February - Harry Corley, cricketer (b.1878).
*20 March - Justin Huntly McCarthy, politician and author (b.1859).
*24 March - Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy Hydrographic Surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army (b.1863).
*6 June - Edward Duggan, solicitor, member 1st Dáil "(Pro Treaty)," representing South Meath, Minister for Home Affairs (1922).

July to December

*14 July - William Cosgrove, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 at the Battle of Gallipoli, Turkey (b.1888).
*14 July - Patrick Hogan, Sinn Féin and Cumann na nGaedhael TD (b.1891).
*22 July - Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet, diplomat and politician (b.1896).
*29 July - Frank Gavan Duffy, fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (b.1852).
*8 September - John Sweetman, politician, one of founders of Sinn Féin and second President of the party in 1908 (b.1844).
*27 October - William Morgan Jellett, Irish Unionist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom (b.1857).
*30 November - Jimmy Elwood, footballer (b.1901).
*1 December - Hugh Kennedy, only Attorney-General of Southern Ireland, first Attorney-General of the Irish Free State and first Chief Justice of the Irish Free State (b.1879).
*16 December - Lowry Hamilton, cricketer (b.1869).

Full date unknown

*Eamonn Duggan, lawyer, nationalist and politician (b.1874).
*Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist (b.1863).