1929 in Ireland

1929 in Ireland

Events

*January 17 - All cats from abroad, except Great Britain, are to be kept in quarantine for a period of six months to avoid rabies.
*February 8 - A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader, Éamon de Valera, to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.
*February 20 - Major-General Seán Mac Eoin, the "Blacksmith of Ballinalee," is appointed Chief of Staff of the army.
*April 22 - The first talking film, "The Singing Fool" starring Al Jolson, opens in the Capitol Theatre in Dublin.
*May 12 - After his resignation from the army Major-General Seán Mac Eoin receives the Cumann na nGaedhael nomination in the Sligo-Leitrim by-election.
**On the same day Maud Gonne MacBride is arrested and charged with seditious libel against the State.
*June 23 - 300,000 people attend the Pontifical High Mass at the Phoenix Park to mark the end of the Catholic Emancipation centenary celebrations.
*July 11 - The restored General Post Office is officially opened by President W. T. Cosgrave.
*July 22 - The Shannon hydro-electric scheme at Ardnacrusha, County Clare is opened.
*October 21 - The Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme is handed over to the ESB (Electricity Supply Board), bringing electricity to Galway and Dublin.
*Proportional Representation is abolished in Northern Ireland.
*The first Irish banknotes are issued.
*Ireland's economy suffers due to the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
*Primary Certificate - introduced, but optional, at end of primary education

Arts and literature

port

Football

*League of Ireland::Winners: Shelbourne

*FAI Cup::Winners: Shamrock Rovers 0 - 0, 3 - 0 Bohemians

*St Patrick's Athletic F.C. was founded

Gaelic Games

*The All-Ireland Champions are Cork (hurling) and Kerry (football).

Golf

*Irish Open is won by Abe Mitchell (England).

Births

January to June

*9 January - Brian Farrell, author, journalist, academic and broadcaster.
*14 February - Noel Lemass, Jnr, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1976).
*27 February - Richie Ryan, former Fine Gael TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP.
*15 March - Paddy Buggy, former Kilkenny hurler, former President of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
*1 April - Michael O'Herlihy, television director (d.1997).
*9 April - James McLoughlin, Roman Catholic Bishop of Galway (d.2005).
*9 June - Shay Gibbons, former international soccer player (d.2006).

July to December

*11 July - David Kelly, actor.
*20 August - Kevin Heffernan, Gaelic footballer and manager.
*9 September - Mervyn Jaffey, cricketer.
*9 October - Michael Dargan, cricketer.
*16 October - James Kelly, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the 1970 Arms Trial (d.2003).
*28 October - Paddy Keaveney, Independent Fianna Fáil TD (d.1995).
*21 November - Niall Toibin, comedian and actor.

Full date unknown

*Colleen Browning, painter.
*Erskine Childers, writer and broadcaster (d.1996).
*Ulick O'Connor, writer, historian and critic.
*Liam Ó Murchú, television broadcaster.
*Ned Power, Waterford hurler (d.2007).
*Camille Souter, painter.
*Seán South, IRA leader fatally wounded during an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough (d.1957).

Deaths

*February - Jim Connell, political activist, writer of "The Red Flag" (b.1852).
*6 March - Thomas Taggart, politician in the United States (b.1856).
*23 March - William Sears, newspaper proprietor, member of 1st Dáil representing South Mayo, "(Pro Treaty)."
*27 April - Austin Stack, Sinn Féin MP and TD, member of 1st Dáil (b.1879).
*28 April - Alice Stopford Green, Independent member of the Seanad in 1922, 1925 and 1928.
*29 April - Otto Jaffe, twice elected as Irish Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast (b.1846).
*5 July - Ted Sullivan, Major League Baseball player and manager (b.1851).
*12 July - Sir Nugent Everard, 1st Baronet soldier, Seanad member (b.1849).
*10 October - Rose Mary Barton, artist.
*18 November - T. P. O'Connor, journalist and Member of Parliament (b.1848).

Full date unknown

*Jer Doheny, Kilkenny hurler (b.1874).
*Grace Rhys, novelist (b.1865).
*Henry Jones Thaddeus, painter (b.1859).


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