1932 in Ireland

See also: 1931 in Ireland, other events of 1932, 1933 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.

Events

• January 29 – Dáil Éireann is dissolved by the Governor-General, James MacNeill. It brings ten years of Cumann na nGaedhael rule to an end.
• March 7 – Dublin Corporation demands the return of the Hugh Lane pictures from the Tate Gallery in London.
• March 8 – Members of the new Fianna Fáil government meet with members of the Labour Party to discuss unemployment, housing, the Oath and other issues.
• March 10 – One of the first actions of the new Fianna Fáil government is the release of 23 political prisoners.
• March 31 – Dublin Coporation is considering removing Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street, Dublin on the grounds that it is an obstruction to traffic.
• May 19 – The Constitution (Removal of Oath) Bill is passed in Dáil Éireann.
• May 21 – Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, lands just outside Derry having taken 14 hours to cross the ocean.
• June 9 – Eamon de Valera and some members of his government leave for discussions with the British Government concerning the Ottawa Conference.
• June 14 – The first pictures of the atom-splitting apparatus are released. The machine was constructed by Dr. John Cockcroft and Dr. Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin.
• June 21 – Ocean liners carrying thousands of pilgrims from the United States, Lapland and Holland arrive in Irish ports for the Eucharistic Congress.
• June 22 – The 31st Eucharistic Congress opens in the Pro-Cathedral in the greatest gathering of Church digitaries that Ireland has ever seen.
• June 23 – 200,000 men attend mass at a High Altar in the Phoenix Park.
• June 24 – 200,000 women are addressed by the Archbishop of Edinburgh at mass in the Phoenix Park.
• June 26 – Almost a million worshippers attend the Pontifical Mass in the Phoenix Park in the final ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress.
• June 30 – The Tailteann Games open in Croke Park, Dublin. The games were first organised in 632 BC.
• August 1 – At the Los Angeles Olympic Games, Bob Tisdell wins the 400-metre hurdles. Another Irishman, Dr. Pat O'Callaghan, wins gold in the hammer-throwing event.
• August 23 – Cumann na nGaedhael leader W.T. Cosgrave criticises Fianna Fáil's policy of retaining the land annuities.
• September 26 – Eamon de Valera gives his inaugural speech as President of the League of Nations. He criticises complacent resolutions where the demand is for effective action.
• October 9 – At a Cumann na nGaedhael meeting in County Limerick batons are drawn and shots are fired as General Richard Mulcahy tries to address the crowd.
• October 19 – Unemployed Dubliners march through the streets of Dublin to Leinster House where they hand in a petition to Seán T. O'Kelly.
• November 16 – The Prince of Wales travels to Belfast for the first time to open the new parliament building at Stormont.
• November 22 – The new Northern Ireland Parliament building at Stormont is officially opened.
• November 26 – Domhnall Ua Buachalla succeeds James MacNeill as Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

Arts and literature

Sports

Births

• August 2 – Peter O'Toole, actor.
• November 3 – Albert Reynolds, former Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil.
• December 15 – Edna O'Brien, novelist.
• December 29 – Eileen Desmond, former Labour Party TD.

Deaths

• May 22 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist and co-founder of the Irish Literary Theatre.