March 20 - After 17 days the army intervenes in the bus strike at the request of the Minister for Industry and Commerce by providing lorries for transport.
March 26 - 72 republicans are arrested and held at the Bridewell Garda Station.
April 1 - The National Athletics and Cycling Association is suspended from the International Amateur Athletic Federation for refusing to confine its activities to the Free State side of the border.
April 12 - Eleven families from the Connemara Gaeltacht arrive in County Meath to set up the Rath Cairn Gaeltacht.
July 14 - 5 people are killed and 70 are injured as a result of sectarian rioting in Belfast.
July 17 - George William Russell (AE), poet, essayist, artist and economist, dies aged 68.
December 7 - This day is a bad day for Irish sport. The Ireland national rugby union team team is beaten by New Zealand and the Irish soccer team is beaten by the Netherlands.
December 16 - Foynes in County Limerick is chosen to be the European terminal of a tranatlantic air service.