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Events from the year 1930 in Ireland.

Incumbents[]

  • Governor-General: James McNeill
  • President of the Executive Council: W. T. Cosgrave (CnaG)

Events[]

  • John Dulanty begins a 20-year spell as Ireland's High Commissioner (later, Ambassador) to London.[1]
  • 31 December – Mayo County Council is dissolved by ministerial order for refusing to appoint Miss Letitia Dunbar-Harrison to the position of county librarian on the grounds that she is a Protestant.[2]

Arts and literature[]

  • 1 July – George Shiels' play The New Gossoon is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
  • 28 August – a painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, found in an Irish cottage, is authenticated.
  • 17 November – W. B. Yeats' 1-act play The Words Upon The Window Pane is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.[3]
  • Samuel Beckett's first separately issued work, the poem Whoroscope, is published by Nancy Cunard's Hours Press in France.[4]
  • George Moore publishes Aphrodite in Aulis and A Flood.
  • 'Æ' (George William Russell) publishes Enchantment, and Other Poems.[4]

Sport[]

Football[]

  • League of Ireland
    Winners: Bohemians
    FAI Cup
    Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1 – 0 Brideville

Golf[]

Births[]

  • 4 January – Tras Honan, Fianna Fáil politician, twice Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann
  • 7 January – Justin Keating, senior Irish Labour Party politician, Teachta Dála, Cabinet Minister, Member of the European Parliament and member of Seanad Éireann (died 2009)
  • 12 January – Jennifer Johnston, novelist and playwright
  • 18 January – Breandán Ó hEithir, journalist and broadcaster working in Irish and English languages (died 1990)
  • 22 February – David Cremin, Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
  • March – Fergus O'Brien, Fine Gael TD and Minister of State
  • 13 March – Don Cockburn, television newsreader (died 2017)
  • 1 April – Frank Cluskey, leader of the Irish Labour Party (died 1989)
  • 12 April – Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, peer and public servant (died 2003)
  • 26 April – Jack Fitzsimons, architect, member of Seanad Éireann and campaigner (died 2014)
  • 10 May – William McDermott, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huancavélica, Peru
  • 13 June – Billy Ringrose, equestrian (died 2020)
  • 27 June – Enda McDonagh, priest (died 2021)
  • 28 June – William C. Campbell, parasitologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 13 August – Frank Durkan, lawyer in the United States (died 2006)
  • 19 August – Frank McCourt, teacher and writer
  • 29 August – Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Gaelic games commentator for Radio Telifís Éireann
  • 30 August – Kieran Crotty, Fine Gael TD
  • 9 September – Des Hanafin, Fianna Fáil politician, member of Seanad Éireann (died 2017)
  • 26 September – Joe Sherlock, Labour Party TD (died 2007)
  • 1 October – Richard Harris, actor (died 2002)
  • 5 October - Sean Potts, tin whistle player with The Chieftains
  • 11 October – Joan O'Hara, actress (died 2007)
  • 22 October – Philomena Lynott, entrepreneur and memoirist (died 2019)
  • 23 October – Thomas Flanagan, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Antonio (died 2019)
  • 4 November – Gerry Duffy, cricketer
  • 17 November – Brian Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister, senator and presidential candidate (died 1995)
  • 15 December – Edna O'Brien, novelist and short story writer
    Full date unknown
    • Edward Delaney, sculptor
    • George Eogan, archaeologist, member of Seanad Éireann (died 2021)
    • Maeve Kelly, writer
    • Seán Ó Coisdealbha, poet, playwright and actor (died 2006)
    • Bertie Troy, priest, hurler and All-Ireland winning manager with Cork (died 2007)

Deaths[]

  • 26 September – Dick Fitzgerald, Kerry Gaelic footballer (born 1882)
  • 29 September – Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (born 1862)
  • 1 October – James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (born 1864)
  • 31 October – Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony, Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist (born 1850)
  • 30 November – Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and socialist in the United States (born 1830)

References[]

  1. ^ "1930: John Dulanty's 20-year stint representing Ireland in London". Department of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  2. ^ Walsh, Pat (2009). The Curious Case of the Mayo Librarian. Cork: Mercier Press. ISBN 9781856356152.
  3. ^ "The Words Upon The Window Pane". Playography Ireland. Irish Theatre Institute. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

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