Events

• 3 January - William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, is hanged in Wandsworth Prison for treason.
• 7 January - The Minister for Education, Tomás Ó Deirg, announces that because refugee children who arrived in Ireland during the war do not have a sufficient knowledge of the Irish language they cannot obtain the Leaving Certificate.
• 21 January - Work starts on a comprehensive Irish-English dictionary.
• 4 February - It is announced that George Bernard Shaw is to be awarded the freedom of Dublin.
• 17 June - Aer Lingus inaugurates a Dublin-Paris air service.
• 6 July - A new republican political party, Clann na Poblachta, is formed in Dublin.
• 25 July - Éamon de Valera's motion to apply for membership of the United Nations is accepted in the Dáil.
• 6 August - On the first anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Captain Bob Lewis , the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the bomb, arrives at Shannon Airport, completing his first flight as a civil aviation pilot.
• 28 August - An order is signed removing Ireland from the state of emergency in existence since 1939 - it becomes effective on 2 September.
• 29 August - George Bernard Shaw is honoured by being made a freeman of Dublin.
• 6 October - 70 primary school teachers protest on the pitch in Croke Park at half-time during the Kerry-Roscommon All-Ireland Football Final due to low pay.
• 22 November - Walt Disney arrives in Dublin. He has a meeting with the Folklore Commission to further his investigation of leprachauns for a forthcoming film.
• 18 December - The government announces the release of 24 internees, including Brendan Behan.

Art and literature

Sport

Births

• 2 April - Ruairí Quinn, leader of the Labour Party and Cabinet Minister.
• 22 May - George Best, footballer.
• 19 October - Jim Mitchell, Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister.

Deaths

See also

• 1945 in Ireland,
• Other events of 1946
• 1947 in Ireland
• Timeline of Irish history