1938 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Sport 2.1 Football 2.2 Golf 3 Births 3.1 January to June 3.2 July to December 3.3 Full date unknown 4 Deaths

Events

• January 17 - The Ford Motor Works in Cork City produces its 25,000th car to be built there.
• April 13 - The Department of Local Government & Public Health reports that cases of typhoid and diphtheria have reduced, however, infant deaths have increased.
• April 21 - Douglas Hyde is selected unanimously by the two main political parties to serve as the first President of Ireland.
• April 26 - The text of the Anglo-Irish Agreement is published. The agreement results in the transfer of the ports at Cobh, Berehaven and Lough Swilly in return for a one-off payment of £10 million.
• May 10 - The government makes an order converting the "Saorstát pound" to the "Irish pound" as part of the new constitutions reforms.
• May 24 - The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a unionist-controlled Derry Corporation.
• June 25 - Douglas Hyde is formally inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
• July 11 - Three Cork Harbour forts are returned to the Irish Government.
• August 8 - Dublin Corporation purchases 16 sets of traffic lights.
• August 21 - The £50,000 20,000-seat Cusack Stand is officially opened at Gaelic Athletic Association haedquarters in Croke Park.
• September 12 - Éamon de Valera is elected President of the Assembly of the League of Nations in geneva.
• October 3 - Britain's last forts in the 26 counties are handed back to the people of Ireland.
• December 17 - The Gaelic Athletic Association confirms that the President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, will cease to be a patron of the organisation because of his attendance at an international soccer match.

Sport

Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Shamrock Rovers

• FAI Cup

Winners: St James' Gate 2 - 1 Dundalk

Golf

• Irish Open is won by Bobby Locke (South Africa).

Births

January to June

• 30 January - Mick Lanigan, former Fianna Fáil Senator.
• 2 February - Detta O'Cathain, Baroness O'Cathain, businesswoman and politician in Britain.
• 29 April - Ray MacSharry, former Tánaiste, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and European Commissioner.
• 2 May - Douglas Goodwin, cricketer.
• 13 May - Patrick Dineen, cricketer.

July to December

• 2 July - John McDonnell, head coach for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks track team.
• 15 July - Andy McEvoy, soccer player (d.1994).
• July - Owen Dudley Edwards, historian and writer.
• July - Seán Ó Cionnaith, Workers' Party of Ireland politician (d.2003).
• 1 August - Paddy Moloney, musician with The Chieftains.
• 3 August - Terry Wogan, BBC broadcaster and former RTE radio and television broadcaster.
• 5 October - Frank Patterson, tenor (d.2000).
• 16 October - Gerry Collins, former Fianna Fáil TD for Limerick West, Cabinet Minister and Member of the European Parliament.
• 29 October - John Kirby, Bishop of Clonfert.

Full date unknown

• John Behan, sculptor.
• Gerald Davis, artist (d.2005).
• Pa Dillon, former Kilkenny hurler.
• Jim Lane, Irish republican and socialist.
• John Moriarty, writer and philosopher (d.2007).
• Úna O'Connor, former camogie player.
• Niall Williams, writer.

Deaths

• 24 February - Thomas Gann, doctor, archaeologist and writer (b.1867).
• 3 June - John Flanagan, three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw (b.1873).
• 27 July - Tom Crean, Antarctic explorer and publican (b.1877).
• 4 August - William Moxley, representative from Illinois' 6th congressional district (b.1851).
• 8 September - Robert Henry Woods, Irish Unionist MP (b.1865).
• 21 October - Sir John Purser Griffith, member of the Seanad.
• 7 November - James Murray Irwin, British Army doctor (b.1858).
• 12 December - James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (b.1869).