1941 in Ireland

See also:1940 in Ireland,other events of 1941,1942 in Ireland and thelist of 'years in Ireland'.

Events

• January 2 - Three Carlow women are killed in a night of bombing in parts of Leinster.
• January 13 - The poet and novelist James Joyce dies in Switzerland.
• January 24 - Part of the old State Chambers in Dublin Castle are destroyed by fire.
• March 6 - 3,800 animals are slaughtered after the fiftieth case of foot & mouth disease is announced.
• March 20 - Bread rationing is introduced.
• March 22 16:00 hours - Collier St. Fintan attacked by two Luftwaffe bombers, off the coast of Pembrokeshire and sunk with all hands - 9 dead.
• April 15 - The Belfast blitz 1,000 people are killed in bombing raids on Belfast. 71 fire men with 13 fire tenders from Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, and Dún Laoghaire crossed the Irish border to assist their Belfast colleagues.
• May 5 - Belfast suffers its third bombing raid during World War II. The Dublin government authorises its emergency services to assist.
• May 14 - Five outbreaks of foot and mouth diesase are reported in Ireland.
• May 26 - A special sitting of Dáil Éireann unanimously condemns the introduction of conscription in Northern Ireland.
• May 27 - Speaking in the British House of Commons Prime Minister Winston Churchill rules out the introduction of conscription in the North.
• May 31 - 34 people are killed when the Luftwaffe bomb part of Dublin.
• August 22 - S.S. Clonlara torpedoed and sunk by U-564 in North Atlantic, while in convoy OG71 - 11 dead.
• October 12 - Charles Stewart Parnell, the uncrowned King of Ireland, is honoured in a huge pageant in Dublin.

Sports

Births

• April 18 - Michael D. Higgins, Labour Party TD and former Cabinet Minister.
• June 24 - Gerard Clifford, Auxiliary Bishop of Armagh (1991 - )
• October 13 - Mick Doyle, former rugby player and coach.
• November 11 - Eddie Keher, former Kilkenny hurling star.
• November 23 - Derek Mahon, poet
• December 2 - William Lee, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (1993 - )

Deaths

• January 13 - James Joyce, writer and poet.
• February 15 - Rt Hon Andrew Jameson, nominated to the 1922 Seanad and 1925 Seanad by the President of the Executive Council; elected to the Seanad in 1928,1931 and 1934. Late of Sutton House, Howth
• September 11 - John MacLoughlin, manufacturer, elected for 9 years to Seanad from 1922 as an Independent; elected for 9 years to Seanad from Industrial and Commercial Panel. Defeated Seanad election in 1943.

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