1932 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1932 in Ireland.

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Events

  • 6 January – sale of the pro-Fianna Fáil Derry Journal in Donegal is briefly prohibited.{{cite web|title=Press censorship and emergency rule in Ireland: The ban on the Derry Journal, 1932 & 1940|first=Freya|last=McClements|date=26 August 2005|access-date=2012-08-01|url=http://www4.dcu.ie/communications/FMC_thesis.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729131807/http://www4.dcu.ie/communications/FMC_thesis.pdf|archive-date=29 July 2012|url-status=dead}}
  • 29 January – Dáil Éireann is dissolved by the Governor-General, James McNeill, bringing ten years of Cumann na nGaedheal rule to an end.
  • 16 February – 1932 Irish general election, results in formation of the first Fianna Fáil government under Éamon de Valera.
  • March – meteorological observatory moved from Valentia Island to Westwood House near Cahirciveen.{{cite web|title=Valentia Observatory|url=http://www.met.ie/about/valentiaobservatory/|publisher=Met Éireann|location=Dublin|access-date=2016-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409070521/http://www.met.ie/about/valentiaobservatory/|archive-date=9 April 2016|url-status=dead}}
  • 8 March – members of the new Fianna Fáil government meet with members of the Labour Party to discuss unemployment, housing, the Oath and other issues.
  • 9 March – Members of the 7th Dáil assemble.
  • 10 March – one of the first actions of the new Fianna Fáil government is the release of 23 political prisoners.
  • 18 March – the new government suspends the Public Safety Act, lifting the prohibition on a number of organisations including the Irish Republican Army. As a reaction to renewed IRA activity, former National Army Commandant Ned Cronin founds the Army Comrades Association, known as the Blueshirts.{{cite book|first=Mark|last=Tierney|title=Modern Ireland|location=Dublin|publisher=Gill & Macmillan|year=1972|pages=175–182}}
  • 31 March – Dublin Corporation is considering removing Nelson's Pillar from O'Connell Street, Dublin on the grounds that it is an obstruction to traffic.
  • 19 May – the Constitution (Removal of Oath) Bill is passed in Dáil Éireann.
  • 21 May – Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, lands just outside Derry having taken 14 hours to cross the ocean.
  • 9 June – Éamon de Valera and some members of his government leave for discussions with the British Government concerning the Ottawa Conference.
  • 14 June – the first pictures of the atom-splitting apparatus are released. The machine was constructed by Dr. John Cockcroft and Dr. Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin.
  • 21 June – ocean liners carrying thousands of pilgrims from the United States, Lapland and the Netherlands arrive in Irish ports for the Eucharistic Congress.
  • 22 June – the 31st International Eucharistic Congress opens in Dublin Pro-Cathedral, the greatest gathering of Church dignitaries that Ireland has ever seen. The "Blue Hussars", the ceremonial Mounted Escort of the Irish Army, make their first public appearance as a guard of honour for the Papal Legate, Cardinal Lauri.
  • 23 June – 2,000 men attend mass at a High Altar in the Phoenix Park.
  • 24 June – 200,000 women are addressed by the Archbishop of Edinburgh at mass in the Phoenix Park.
  • 26 June – almost a million worshippers attend Pontifical Mass in the Phoenix Park in the final ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress.
  • 30 June – the third Tailteann Games open in Croke Park, Dublin.
  • 1 August – at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, Bob Tisdall wins the 400-metre hurdles. Another Irishman, Dr. Pat O'Callaghan, wins gold in the hammer-throwing event.
  • 18 August – Scottish aviator Jim Mollison takes off from Portmarnock Strand to become the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight.{{cite journal|title=Mollison's Atlantic Flight|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1932/1932%20-%200851.html|journal=Flight|volume=24|issue=35|date=26 August 1932|access-date=2012-08-21|pages=795–8}}
  • 23 August – Cumann na nGaedheal leader W. T. Cosgrave criticises Fianna Fáil's policy of retaining the land annuities.
  • 26 September – Éamon de Valera gives his inaugural speech as President of the League of Nations. He criticises complacent resolutions where the demand is for effective action.
  • 9 October – at a Cumann na nGaedheal meeting in County Limerick batons are drawn and shots are fired as General Richard Mulcahy tries to address the crowd.
  • 19 October – unemployed Dubliners march through the streets of Dublin to Leinster House where they hand in a petition to Seán T. O'Kelly.
  • October – Anglo-Irish Trade War begins.
  • 16 November – the Prince of Wales travels to Belfast for the first time to open the new parliament building at Stormont.
  • 22 November – the new Northern Ireland Parliament building at Stormont is officially opened.
  • 26 November – Domhnall Ua Buachalla succeeds James McNeill as Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

Arts and literature

  • 7 March – Dublin Corporation demands the return of the Hugh Lane pictures from the Tate Gallery in London.
  • 22 March – Tarzan the Ape Man premieres in New Yord City, first of the classic film series co-starring Maureen O'Sullivan.
  • Austin Clarke's first novel, The Bright Temptation: a romance, is prohibited in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board.
  • Francis Stuart's novels Pigeon Irish and The Coloured Dome are published.
  • W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham and publishes Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems.{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
  • Seán Ó Faoláin publishes his first collection, Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories, in London.
  • Nineteen Irish writers led by Yeats and George Bernard Shaw form an Academy of Irish Letters primarily to oppose the Censorship of Publications Board.{{cite journal|title='The best banned in the land': censorship and Irish writing since 1950|first=Donal|last=O Drisceoil|journal=Yearbook of English Studies|year=2005|volume=35 |pages=146–160 |doi=10.1353/yes.2005.0042 |s2cid=159880279 |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/yes.2005.0042|access-date=2012-03-21|hdl=10468/733|hdl-access=free}}
  • The first sound film made in Ireland, The Voice of Ireland, is directed by Col. Victor Haddick.{{cite book|first=Patrick|last=Robinson|title=Film Facts|location=Wigston|publisher=Quantum Books|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84573-235-6|page=12}}
  • American dancer Adele Astaire marries English aristocrat Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish (9 May) and they settle at Lismore Castle, one of the Devonshire family seats.

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