1936 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Golf 4 Births 4.1 January to March 4.2 April to June 4.3 July to September 4.4 October to December 4.5 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December 5.3 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

• February 9 - Brian de Valera, the third son of Éamon de Valera dies tragically in a horse-riding accident aged 21.
• March 5 - 500 delegates attend the Fine Gael - United Ireland Party Árd-Feis in Dublin. W. T. Cosgrave is once again nominated as its president.
• April 4 - A dispute between two unions over who makes coffins results in the coffin of an abandoned infant being turned away from Glasnevin Cemetery.
• May 27 - Aer Lingus makes its first flight. The five-seater plane, Iolar, travels from Baldonnell to Bristol.
• May 28 - The Dáil passes a motion abolishing the Senate of the Irish Free State.
• June 20 - The IRA is (again) declared an illegal organisation by the government.
• November 20 - General Eoin O'Duffy leads 600 men in his Bandera to fight for Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Source articles about the Bandera.
• December 12- The Executive Authority (External Relations) Act 1936 is passed, which legislates for the abdication of King Edward VIII and passes the throne to Prince Albert, Duke of York.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Bohemians

• FAI Cup

Winners: Shamrock Rovers 2 - 1 Cork

[edit] Golf

• Irish Open is won by Reg Whitcombe (England).

[edit] Births

[edit] January to March

• January - Syd Cheatle, playwright and novelist.
• 2 February - Tony Ryan, businessman and philanthropist, founder of Guinness Peat Aviation and one of founders of Ryanair (d.2007).
• 12 February - Monica Barnes, former Fine Gael Teachta Dála.
• 17 February - Joe Haverty, soccer player.
• 18 February - Ciaran Bourke, musician, one of the original members of the The Dubliners (d.1988).
• 3 March - Christopher Jones, Bishop of Elphin (1994 - ).
• 11 March - Pat Brady, soccer player.
• 15 March - David Andrews, former Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and Chairman of the Irish Red Cross.
• March - Vincent Brady, Fianna Fáil politician, served as Government Chief Whip and Minister for Defence.

[edit] April to June

• 1 April - Gerry O'Sullivan, Labour Party (Ireland) TD, Minister of State and Lord Mayor of Cork (d.1994).
• 7 April - Mick McGrath, soccer player and manager.
• 19 April - Séamus Pattison, Labour Party TD and former Ceann Comhairle.
• 1 May - Colm Hilliard, Fianna Fáil TD (d.2002).
• 7 May - Tony O'Reilly, former rugby player and businessman.
• 8 May - Michael O'Leary, former Tánaiste and Labour Party leader (d.2006).
• 6 June - William Murphy, Bishop of Kerry (1995 - ).
• 8 June - Michael O'Leary, former leader of the Labour Party, Tánaiste and Cabinet Minister.
• 9 June - Mick O'Dwyer, former Gaelic footballer and manager.

[edit] July to September

• 5 July - Brendan Halligan, economist and former Irish Labour Party politician.
• 6 July - Dave Allen, comedian (d.2005).
• 9 July - Bobby Molloy, former Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrats TD and Cabinet Minister.
• 13 August - James Moriarty, Bishop of the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin.
• 23 August - Godfrey Graham, cricketer.
• 15 September - Máirín Quill, former Progressive Democrats TD.
• 24 September - John Magee SPS, Bishop of Cloyne (1987 - ), former private secretary to Pope John Paul II.
• 27 September - Barry Cogan, former Fianna Fáil TD and Senator.
• September - Big Tom, singer and musician.

[edit] October to December

• 5 October - Brian Hannon, Bishop of Clogher from 1986 to 2001.
• 21 October - William Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse, peer.
• 27 November - Feargal Quinn, businessman, founder of Superquinn, independent member of Seanad Éireann.
• 12 December - Noel Sheridan, actor, artist, Director National College of Art and Design (1979 - 2003).
• 16 December - Jim Fitzsimons, former Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP.

[edit] Full date unknown

• Brian Bourke, artist.
• Gerard Brady, senior Fianna Fáil politician, served as Minister for Education.
• Jim Kemmy, Irish Labour Party and Democratic Socialist Party TD (d.1997).
• Brendan Kennelly, poet and novelist, Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College Dublin.
• Patrick Masterson, writer and Professor (Emeritus), University College Dublin.
• Mattie McDonagh, former Gaelic footballer with Galway (d.2005).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• 10 January - William Kenny, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1914 near Ypres, Belgium (b.1880).
• 20 January - George V of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (b. 1865).
• 26 January - Francis O'Neill, police officer in America and collector of Irish traditional music (b.1848).
• February - Harry Corley, cricketer (b.1878).
• 20 March - Justin Huntly McCarthy, politician and author (b.1859).
• 24 March - Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville, Royal Navy Hydrographic Surveyor, murdered by Irish Republican Army (b.1863).
• 6 June - Edward Duggan, solicitor, member 1st Dáil (Pro Treaty), representing South Meath, Minister for Home Affairs (1922).

[edit] July to December

• 14 July - William Cosgrove, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 at the Battle of Gallipoli, Turkey (b.1888).
• 14 July - Patrick Hogan, Sinn Féin and Cumann na nGaedhael TD (b.1891).
• 22 July - Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet, diplomat and politician (b.1896).
• 29 July - Frank Gavan Duffy, fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (b.1852).
• 8 September - John Sweetman, politician, one of founders of Sinn Féin and second President of the party in 1908 (b.1844).
• 27 October - William Morgan Jellett, Irish Unionist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom (b.1857).
• 30 November - Jimmy Elwood, footballer (b.1901).
• 1 December - Hugh Kennedy, only Attorney-General of Southern Ireland, first Attorney-General of the Irish Free State and first Chief Justice of the Irish Free State (b.1879).
• 16 December - Lowry Hamilton, cricketer (b.1869).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Eamonn Duggan, lawyer, nationalist and politician (b.1874).
• Margaretta Eagar, nurse for the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and memoirist (b.1863).