1943 in Ireland

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Events

• 1 February - The Currency Commission is renamed the Central Bank of Ireland (under terms of the Central Bank Act 1942); it is not, however, given all the powers expected of a central bank.
• 23 February - S.S. Kyleclare torpedoed in North Atlantic by U-456: eighteen die.
• 23–24 February - Cavan Orphanage Fire: Thirty-five girls and a cook from St Joseph's Orphanage, an industrial school in Cavan, are killed in a fire in their dormitories. A subsequent inquiry absolves the Poor Clares of blame.
• 17 March
  • Éamon de Valera and his government celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a céilí in the Great Hall of Dublin Castle. de Valera makes the speech "The Ireland That We Dreamed Of", commonly called the "comely maidens" speech.
  • British military aircraft crashes at Templeport, Tullyhaw, County Cavan: pilot and navigator survive.
• 1 May - Sir Basil Brooke becomes Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
• 15 May - Irish Oak (Irish Shipping) torpedoed and sunk by U-607, 700 miles west of Ireland: crew rescued by Irish Plane eight hours later.
• 2 June - S.S. City of Bremen (Saorstat & Continental Steam Ship Company) bombed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay: all eleven crew lost.
• 5 October - In the largest manufacturing campaign in the history of the Irish Sugar Company, seven hundred employees at the Carlow Sugar Beet Factory will work in three shifts without pause for 18 weeks until all the 230,000 acres (930 km²) of beet is processed.
• 29 December - MV Kerlogue (with a crew of 11) rescues 164 Germans from the Bay of Biscay.
• Winter - Irish coffee first served, at Foynes.^[1]

Arts and literature

• The Irish Exhibition of Living Art is founded.
• The National Film Institute, a predecessor of the Irish Film Institute, is founded under the influence of the Catholic Church to counter perceived moral corruption in imported films.^[2]
• Cecil Day-Lewis publishes his poetry Word Over All.
• Cathal Ó Sándair publishes his first novels, An t-eiteallán do-fheicthe and Triocha písa airgid.

Sport

Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Cork United

• FAI Cup

Winners: Drumcondra 2 - 1 Cork United.

Golf

• Irish Open is not played due to The Emergency.

Births

• 17 January - Thomas John Curry, Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
• 27 January - Seán Ryan, former Labour Party (Ireland) TD, Seanad Éireann member.
• 30 January - Pat Henderson, former Kilkenny hurler and manager.
• 9 February - Pat Dunne, soccer player.
• 7 April - Francis O'Brien, Fianna Fáil Senator.
• 10 April - Patrick Hughes, cricketer.
• 1 May - Joe Walsh, former Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister.
• 7 May - Donal McCann, actor (died 1999).
• 21 May - Michael Noonan, Fine Gael TD for Limerick East and former Cabinet Minister.
• 14 June - Maurice Manning, former Fine Gael politician.
• 22 September - Robert Ballagh, painter and designer.
• 30 September - Ray Burke, former Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister convicted and jailed on charges arising from corruption in office.
• September - Hugh Byrne, former Fianna Fáil TD.
• 30 November - Louis Belton, former Fine Gael TD.

Full date unknown

• John L. Murray, Chief Justice of Ireland.
• Patrick Nee, former mobster, author.

Deaths

• 28 January - Hugo Flinn, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1880).
• 29 January - Geoffrey Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort, peer (born 1878).
• 22 February - Wentworth Allen, cricketer (born 1894).
• 20 May - P. J. Brady, Irish Nationalist Member of UK Parliament for Dublin St Stephen's Green (born 1868).
• 11 June - Thomas O'Donnell, barrister, judge, Irish Nationalist, MP (born 1871).
• 19 July - Robert Alexander, sportsman (born 1910).
• 27 July - William Cummins, national teacher, member of Seanad (1922-1943).
• 7 August - Sarah Purser, painter and stained-glass maker (born 1848).
• 27 September - Willoughby Hamilton, tennis player, Wimbledon Champion in 1890 (born 1864).

Full date unknown

• Jamesy Kelleher, Cork hurler (born 1878).
• John Mahony, Kerry hurler (born 1863).

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