1927 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Gaelic Games 3.3 Golf 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December

Events

• April 6 - Dan Breen proposes a Bill in the Dáil that Article 17 of the Irish Free State Constitution be removed. President W. T. Cosgrave opposes the removal of the Oath of Allegiance.
• April 13 - Delegates at the annual conference of the Farmers' Party reject proposals to merge with Cumann na nGaedheal.
• April 18 - Celtic Park in Belfast is opened. It is the first greyhound track in Ireland.
• June 20 - In a radio broadcast, the leader of Fianna Fáil, Éamon de Valera, says that the results of the general election prove that the people of Ireland want to get rid of the 'Oath of Allegiance'.
• June 29 - A morning eclipse of the sun takes place across Ireland.
• July 10 - Kevin O'Higgins, Minister for Justice, is assassinated by the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army.
• July 15 - Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth) dies aged 59. She was an officer in the Irish Citizen Army, taking part in the Easter Rising. She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat. First female Irish cabinet minister.
• July 28 - Ireland's first automatic telephone exchange is opened in Dublin.
• August 4 - John Dillon, former nationalist Member of Parliament and last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party dies aged 76 in London.
• August 11 - Following changes to the electoral laws Fianna Fáil Teachtaí Dála arrive at Leinster House for the first time. They take the Oath of Allegiance, dismissing it as an "empty formula".
• The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) is established as an offshoot of the Shannon Scheme.
• The Agricultural Credit Corporation is set up to encourage investment in agriculture.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• International Games:

23 April: Ireland 1-2 Italy 'B'

• League of Ireland

Winners: Shamrock Rovers

• FAI Cup

Winners: Drumcondra 1 - 1, 1 - 0 Brideville

Gaelic Games

• The All-Ireland Champions are Dublin (hurling) and Kildare (football).

Golf

• Irish Open is won by George Duncan (Scotland).

Births

• 15 January - Michael Barrett, former Fianna Fáil TD (b.2006).
• 5 February - John S. Beckett, musician, composer and conductor (d.2007).
• 3 March - Aidan Higgins, writer.
• 24 April - Eamon Casey, Bishop of Galway (1976 - 1992).
• 8 July - John McAndrew, former Mayo Gaelic footballer, doctor and greyhound trainer.
• 26 July - Danny La Rue, female impersonator.
• 25 September - Gordon Wilson, peace campaigner (d.1995).
• 9 October - Frank O'Farrell, soccer player and manager.
• 14 October - Alf Ringstead, soccer player (d.2000).
• 4 December - Pat Daly, soccer player.
• 17 December - Patricia Driscoll, actress.

Full date unknown

• Patrick Galvin, poet and dramatist.
• Pearse Hutchinson, poet, broadcaster and translator.
• Richard Murphy, poet.
• Imogen Stuart, sculptor.

Deaths

January to June

• 6 February - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b.1879).
• 9 March - Martin Fitzgerald, elected to Seanad in 1922 and 1925.
• 22 April - Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast (b.1853).
• 3 May - Tom Gallaher, tobacco manufacturer (b.1840).
• 1 June - J. B. Bury, historian, classical scholar and philologist (b.1861).

July to December

• 10 July - Kevin O'Higgins, Minister for Justice, assassinated by the Irish Republican Army (b.1892).
• 15 July - Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth), Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil TD, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister (b.1868).
• 22 July - Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin, barrister and politician (b.1867).
• 4 August - John Dillon, land reform agitator, Irish Home Rule activist, nationalist politician, MP and last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (b.1851).
• 5 August - Joseph O'Mara, opera singer (b.1864).
• 5 August - Henry Prittie, 4th Baron Dunalley, peer and Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary 1905-1922 (b.1851).
• 3 October - Gerald Carew, 5th Baron Carew (b.1860).
• 7 October - Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, philanthropist and businessman (b.1847).
• 16 October - Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant (b.1857).
• 22 November - Patrick O'Donnell, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (b.1856).
• 31 December - Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo, served in Seanad from 1922 to 1927.