1935 in Ireland - Definition and Overview

See also: 1934 in Ireland, other events of 1935, 1936 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.

Events

• 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 Lenten pastoral the Bishop of Galway denounces immodest dress and vulgar films. Membership of Trinity College Dublin is still forbidden for Catholics and membership of the IRA and Communist organisations are considered mortal sins.
• March 20 - After 17 days the army intervenes in the bus strike at the request of the Minister for Industry & Commerce by providing lorries fro 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 Irish Free State.
• 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 rioting in Belfast.
• July 17 - George Russel (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 - Today is a bad day for Irish sport. The Irish rugby team is beaten by New Zealand and the Irish soccer team is beaten by Holland.
• 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.