1925 in Ireland

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See also:	1925 in Northern Ireland Other events of 1925 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1925 in Ireland.

Events

• 11 February - 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.
• 10 March - 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.
• 16 March - At a meeting of the Irish Boundary Commission in County Down witnesses from Newry and Kilkeel support being included in the Irish Free State.
• 2 April - The Dublin Metropolitan Police merges with the Civic Guard under a new Act. The new organisation will be known as the Garda Síochána.
• 3 April - The Dáil accepts the government's motion on the Shannon Power Scheme. Siemens-Schuckert will be the contractors.
• 26 May - The Shannon Electricity Bill is passed in Dáil Éireann. £5.2 million is needed to finance the scheme.
• 1 July - It is announced that Alexander Hull & Co., building contractors, are to re-build the General Post Office, Dublin at a cost of £50,000.
• 9 July - In Dublin, Oonagh Keogh becomes the first female member of a stock exchange in the world.
• 5 August - Annie Walsh becomes the last woman to be executed in Ireland; she had murdered her husband.
• 3 December - 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]
• Tuam workhouse becomes the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, a Magdalene asylum.

Arts and literature

• 6 March - Establishment of An Gúm as part of the Department of Education by Ernest Blythe, Minister for Finance, to promote publications in Irish.^[2]
• George Bernard Shaw is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Peadar O'Donnell's first novel, Storm, is published.
• Liam O'Flaherty's novel The Informer, set in Dublin in the aftermath of the Civil War, is published and wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in fiction.

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)

Yachting

• First Fastnet Race

Births

• 1 May - Edmund Fitzgibbon, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warri in Nigeria.
• 17 May - Michael Herbert, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (died 2006)
• 27 May - Martin O'Toole, Fianna Fáil TD and senator. (died 2013)
• 3 June - Tom Scannell, soccer player.
• 16 June - Ian Anderson, President of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man (died 2005).
• 16 July - Joe Lynch, actor (died 2001).
• 26 August - Thomas Finnegan, Bishop of Killala (1987–2002)
• 28 August - Robin Lawler, soccer player (died 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 (died 2006).
• 15 September - Jerry Cronin, Fianna Fáil TD Cabinet Minister and MEP (died 1990).
• 1 October - Brendan O'Dowda, tenor singer (died 2002).
• 18 October - George Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, held six Ministerial posts including Tánaiste (died 1983).
• 30 October - Reg Ryan, soccer player (died 1997).
• 22 December - Lewis Glucksman, businessman, philanthropist, patron of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC (died 2006).

Full date unknown

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

Deaths

• 17 February - George Sigerson, surgeon and writer, member of the 1922 Seanad.
• 7 June - Matt Talbot, manual labourer and ascetic (born 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 (born 1835).
• 27 October - Darrell Figgis, writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent politician (born 1882).
• 28 October - George W. Joy, painter (born 1844).
• 4 November - Paddy Hannan, gold prospector whose discovery in 1893 near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia set off a gold rush (born 1840).

Full date unknown

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

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