1929 in Ireland

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See also:	1929 in Northern Ireland Other events of 1929 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1929 in Ireland.

Events

• 17 January - All cats from abroad, except Great Britain, are to be kept in quarantine for a period of six months to avoid rabies.
• 8 February - A Belfast court sentences Fianna Fáil leader, Éamon de Valera, to one month in jail for illegally entering County Armagh.
• 20 February - Major-General Seán Mac Eoin, the Blacksmith of Ballinalee, is appointed Chief of Staff of the army.
• 22 April - The first talking film, The Singing Fool starring Al Jolson, opens in the Capitol Theatre in Dublin.
• 12 May
  • After his resignation from the army Major-General Seán Mac Eoin receives the Cumann na nGaedheal nomination in the Sligo-Leitrim by-election.
  • Maud Gonne MacBride is arrested and charged with seditious libel against the State.
• 22 May - Northern Ireland general election for the Parliament of Northern Ireland, the first held following abolition of proportional representation and the redrawing of electoral boundaries to create single-seat territorial constituencies. The Ulster Unionist Party retains a substantial majority.
• 23 June - 300,000 people attend the Pontifical High Mass at the Phoenix Park to mark the end of the Catholic Emancipation centenary celebrations.
• 11 July - The restored General Post Office, Dublin, is officially opened by President W. T. Cosgrave.
• 22 July - The Shannon hydro-electric scheme at Ardnacrusha, County Clare is opened.
• August - Censorship of Publications Act sets up the Censorship of Publications Board.
• 21 October - The Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme is handed over to the ESB (Electricity Supply Board), bringing electricity to Galway and Dublin.
• 24 October - Start of Wall Street Crash; Ireland's economy suffers.
• Six banks in Northern Ireland begin to issue banknotes in sterling.
• Primary Certificate introduced, but optional, at end of primary education.
• Fordson tractor production is moved to Cork from the United States.

Arts and literature

• 29 November - Savoy Cinema opens in Dublin with the American colour talkie On with the Show.
• Elizabeth Bowen publishes her novel The Last September, set during the Irish War of Independence.
• Cecil Day-Lewis publishes Transitional Poem.^[1]
• Louis MacNeice publishes his poetry Blind Fireworks.^[1]
• Tomás Ó Criomhthain's autobiographical An t-Oileánach is published.
• Peadar O'Donnell publishes his novel Adrigool.
• George Bernard Shaw's political satire The Apple Cart is first performed (in Warsaw and Malvern).
• W. B. Yeats publishes his poetry A Packet for Ezra Pound and The Winding Stair.

Sport

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.
• 7 February - Norman Rodway, actor (died 2001).
• 10 February - Liam Ó Murchú, television broadcaster.
• 14 February - Noel Lemass, Jnr, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1976).
• 27 February - Richie Ryan, former Fine Gael TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP.
• 11 March - Erskine Barton Childers, writer and broadcaster (died 1996).
• 15 March - Paddy Buggy, former Kilkenny hurler, former President of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
• 1 April - Michael O'Herlihy, television director (died 1997).
• 9 April - James McLoughlin, Roman Catholic Bishop of Galway (died 2005).
• 9 June - Shay Gibbons, former international soccer player (died 2006).

July to December

• 11 July - David Kelly, actor (died 2012).
• 20 August - Kevin Heffernan, Gaelic footballer and manager.
• 7 September - T. P. McKenna, character actor (died 2011).
• 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 (died 2003).
• 28 October - Paddy Keaveney, Independent Fianna Fáil TD (died 1995).
• 20 November - Ned Power, Waterford hurler (died 2007).
• 21 November - Niall Toibin, comedian and actor.

Full date unknown

• Ulick O'Connor, writer, historian and critic.
• Camille Souter, painter.
• Seán South, IRA leader fatally wounded during an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough (died 1957).

Deaths

• February - Jim Connell, political activist, writer of The Red Flag (born 1852).
• 6 March - Thomas Taggart, politician in the United States (born 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 (born 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 (born 1846).
• 5 July - Ted Sullivan, Major League Baseball player and manager (born 1851).
• 12 July - Sir Nugent Everard, 1st Baronet soldier, Seanad member (born 1849).
• 10 October - Rose Mary Barton, artist.
• 18 November - T. P. O'Connor, journalist and Member of Parliament (born 1848).

Full date unknown

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

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