1925 in Ireland

1925 in Ireland

Events

*February 11 - 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.
*March 10 - 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.
*March 16 - At a meeting of the Boundary Commission in County Down witnesses from Newry and Kilkeel support being included in the Irish Free State.
*April 2 - The Dublin Metropolitan Police merges with the Civic Guard under a new Act. The new organisation will be known as An Garda Síochána
*April 3 - The Dáil accepts the governments motion on the Shannon Power Scheme. Messrs Siemens-Schuchert will be the contractors.
*May 26 - The Shannon Electricity Bill is passed in Dáil Éireann. £5.2 million is needed to finance the scheme.
*July 1 - It is announced that Alexander Hull & Co. Building Contractors are to re-build the General Post Office, Dublin at a cost of £50,000.
*July 9 - In Dublin, Oonagh Keogh becomes the first female member of a stock exchange in the world.
*August 5 - Annie Walsh became the last woman to be executed in Ireland; she had murdered her husband.
*December 3 - A settlement on the boundary question is presented in London. Controversially, the commission recommends no change to the border.

Arts and literature

*George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.

port

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)

Births

*1 May - Edmund Fitzgibbon, retired Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warri in Nigeria.
*17 May - Michael Herbert, former Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (d.2006).
*3 June - Tom Scannell, soccer player.
*16 June - Ian Anderson, former President of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man (d.2005).
*27 June - Martin O'Toole, former Fianna Fáil TD and senator.
*16 July - Joe Lynch, actor (d.2001).
*26 August - Thomas Finnegan, Bishop of Killala (1987 - 2002 ).
*28 August - Robin Lawler, soccer player (d.1981).
*1 September - Michael J. Cleary, former Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Banjul, Gambia.
*16 September - Charles Haughey, former Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil (d.2006).
*15 September - Jerry Cronin, Fianna Fáil TD Cabinet Minister and MEP (d.1990).
*1 October - Brendan O'Dowda, tenor singer (d.2002).
*18 October - George Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, held six Ministerial posts including Tánaiste (d.1983).
*30 October - Reg Ryan, soccer player (d.1997).
*22 December - Lewis Glucksman, businessman, philanthropist, patron of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC (d.2006).

Full date unknown

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

Deaths

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

Full date unknown

*Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, social reformer (b.1845).


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