1925 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Gaelic Games 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

Events

• February 11 - In the Dáil a resolution is passed making it illegal for any citizen to secure a divorce with the right to re-marry in the State.
• March 10 - The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, James Craig, announces the impending dissolution of the parliament. He says the election will be fought on the Boundary Commission issue.
• March 16 - At a meeting of the Irish Boundary Commission in County Down witnesses from Newry and Kilkeel support being included in the Irish Free State.
• April 2 - The Dublin Metropolitan Police merges with the Civic Guard under a new Act. The new organisation will be known as An Garda Síochána.
• April 3 - The Dáil accepts the government's motion on the Shannon Power Scheme. Siemens-Schuchert will be the contractors.
• May 26 - The Shannon Electricity Bill is passed in Dáil Éireann. £5.2 million is needed to finance the scheme.
• July 1 - It is announced that Alexander Hull & Co., building contractors, are to re-build the General Post Office, Dublin at a cost of £50,000.
• July 9 - In Dublin, Oonagh Keogh becomes the first female member of a stock exchange in the world.
• August 5 - Annie Walsh becomes the last woman to be executed in Ireland; she had murdered her husband.
• December 3 - A settlement on the boundary question between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland is presented in London. Controversially, the commission recommends no change to the border.^[1]

Arts and literature

• George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.

Sport

Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Shamrock Rovers

• FAI Cup

Winners: Shamrock Rovers 2 - 1 Shelbourne

Gaelic Games

• The All-Ireland Champions are Tipperary (hurling) and Galway (football)

Births

• 1 May - Edmund Fitzgibbon, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warri in Nigeria.
• 17 May - Michael Herbert, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (d.2006).
• 3 June - Tom Scannell, soccer player.
• 16 June - Ian Anderson, President of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man (d.2005).
• 27 June - Martin O'Toole, Fianna Fáil TD and senator.
• 16 July - Joe Lynch, actor (d.2001).
• 26 August - Thomas Finnegan, Bishop of Killala (1987–2002 ).
• 28 August - Robin Lawler, soccer player (d.1981).
• 1 September - Michael J. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Banjul, Gambia.
• 16 September - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil (d.2006).
• 15 September - Jerry Cronin, Fianna Fáil TD Cabinet Minister and MEP (d.1990).
• 1 October - Brendan O'Dowda, tenor singer (d.2002).
• 18 October - George Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, held six Ministerial posts including Tánaiste (d.1983).
• 30 October - Reg Ryan, soccer player (d.1997).
• 22 December - Lewis Glucksman, businessman, philanthropist, patron of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC (d.2006).

Full date unknown

• Anthony Cronin, poet.
• Willie John Daly, Cork hurler.
• Ciaran MacMathuna, broadcaster, music collector.
• Nick O'Donnell, Kilkenny and Wexford hurler (d.1988).
• Maureen Potter, singer, actress and comedian (d.2004).
• Mick Ryan, Tipperary hurler (d.2007).

Deaths

• 1 January - James Clayton Love, member of the 1922 Seanad.
• 17 February - George Sigerson, surgeon and writer, member of the 1922 Seanad.
• 7 June - Matt Talbot, manual labourer and ascetic (b.1856).
• 22 June - Matthew Gibney, priest, in 1880 in Australia, tended the seemingly seriously wounded Ned Kelly, heard his confession and gave him the last rites (b.1835).
• 27 October - Darrell Figgis, writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent politician (b.1882).
• 28 October - George W. Joy, painter (b.1844).
• 4 November - Paddy Hannan, gold prospector whose discovery in 1893 near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia set off a gold rush (b.1840).

Full date unknown

• Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, social reformer (b.1845).

References