# 1942 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1942 in Ireland.

## Incumbents

* President: Douglas Hyde
* Taoiseach: Éamon de Valera (FF)
* Tánaiste: Seán T. O'Kelly (FF)
* Minister for Finance: Seán T. O'Kelly (FF)
* Chief Justice: Timothy Sullivan
* Dáil: 10th
* Seanad: 3rd

## Events

* January – Newrath Bridge in County Wicklow collapses.
* 3 March – due to The Emergency the rationing of gas is introduced.
* 5 March – it is announced that Ireland is to have a new Central Bank replacing the old Currency Commission.
* 16 March – Irish Willow is detained by German submarine U-753 but released.
* April – attempted shooting of two Garda Síochána detectives during a ceremony at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, for which Brendan Behan is imprisoned.
* 2 June – speed levels are restricted to prevent wear of tyres on cars, motorcycles and buses.
* Summer – Ailtirí na hAiséirghe, a radical nationalist and fascist political party, is founded by Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin.
* 7 June – first mass held at the new Roman Catholic Cavan Cathedral (dedication 27 September).
* 11 August – Irish Rose rescues seven survivors from the American ship Wawaloam in the Atlantic.
* 13 August – Irish Pine rescues nineteen survivors from the British ship Richmond Castle in the Atlantic.
* 26 August – Irish Willow rescues 47 survivors from the British ship Empire Breeze in the Atlantic.
* 17 September – Irish Larch rescues forty survivors from the Panamanian ship Stone Street in the Atlantic.
* 2 October – British cruiser Curacoa (D41) collides with the liner Queen Mary (serving as a troopship) off the coast of Donegal and sinks: 338 die.
* 15 November – Irish Pine torpedoed and sunk by U-608, in the North Atlantic: 33 die.
* 12 December – Irish Poplar collides with the launch Eileen and the Cork Harbour pilot during a force eight gale: five die.
* 22 December – there are reports of a split in the Labour Party due to the selection of candidates for the forthcoming general election.
* December – Government prohibits direct newspaper advertising in Ireland of jobs in the U.K. During the year £4.5M is remitted to Ireland from Irish workers already in Britain through the Post Office.
* Lice-born typhus spreads.

## Arts and literature

* 16 March – Paul Vincent Carroll's wartime drama The Strings Are False premieres at the Olympia Theatre (Dublin).
* June – Brendan Behan's "I Become a Borstal Boy" is published in The Bell.
* Elizabeth Bowen publishes Bowen's Court.
* Ina Boyle's sketch for small orchestra Wildgeese is premiered.
* Eric Cross publishes his novel The Tailor and Ansty, which is prohibited in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board.
* Patrick Kavanagh's poetry The Great Hunger is published by the Cuala Press.
* Maura Laverty's novel Never No More is published, having been serialised in The Bell.
* Seán Ó Súilleabháin's A Handbook of Irish Folklore is published for the Folklore of Ireland Society in Dublin.

## Sport
### Football
#### League of Ireland

    Winners: Cork United

#### FAI Cup

    Winners: Dundalk 2 – 2, 3 – 1 Cork United.

### Golf

* Irish Open is not played due to The Emergency.

## Births

* 12 January
** John Moore, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Bauchi, Nigeria.
** Hilary Weston, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (from 1997 to 2002).
* 16 January – Tony Doyle, actor (died 2000).
* 18 January – Eric Barber, soccer player.
* 1 February – P. J. Mara, political adviser and senator (died 2016).
* 12 February – Robert Ellison, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Banjul, Gambia.
* 17 February – Bill Cullen, businessman
* 22 April – Aengus Fanning, journalist and editor (died 2012).
* 15 May – Pádraic McCormack, Fine Gael TD for Galway West.
* May – Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (died 2004).
* 28 July – John Bowman, historian and broadcaster.
* 1 August – Ned O'Keeffe, Independent TD for Cork East, originally Fianna Fáil.
* 18 August – Tommy Carroll, soccer player.
* 25 August – Pat Ingoldsby, television presenter, poet.
* 30 August – Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Member of Parliament (UK), perjurer and Anglican priest.
* 17 September – Des Lynam, sportscaster and British television personality.
* 4 October – Frank Stagg, Provisional Irish Republican Army member (died of hunger strike 1976 in Wakefield Prison).
* 20 October – Philomena Begley, country music singer.
* 24 October – Frank Delaney, novelist, journalist and broadcaster (died 2017).
* 28 November – Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, poet.
* 24 December – Anthony Clare, psychiatrist and broadcaster (died 2007).

### Full date unknown

*   * Jackie Gilroy, Gaelic footballer (died 2007).
*   * Padraig O'Malley, peacemaker, professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston and writer.
*   * Dermot O'Reilly, musician, producer and songwriter in Canada (died 2007).
*   * Ted Tynan, Workers' Party councillor in Cork.
*   * Macdara Woods, poet (died 2018).

## Deaths

* 1 January – John Meredith, Australian Army Brigadier General (born 1864).
* 8 January – Thomas Hughes, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Guillemont, France (born 1885).
* 14 January – James Graham, cricketer (born 1906).
* 7 February – Bishop Patrick McKenna, Bishop of Clogher, 1909–1942 (born 1868).
* 8 April – Philip Meldon, cricketer (died 1874).
* 20 April – Thomas Kelly, founding member of Sinn Féin, member of 1st Dáil (Pro Treaty), later a member of Fianna Fáil.
* 11 May – George Nicolls, Sinn Féin and Cumann na nGaedheal TD.
* 29 May – Samuel Jacob Jackson, politician in Canada (born 1848).
* 30 June – Robert Pilkington, lawyer and politician who sat in Western Australian Legislative Assembly and British House of Commons (born 1870).
* 1 July – Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish Language writer (born 1857)
* 15 July – Paddy Finucane, RAF fighter pilot, youngest Wing Commander in RAF history, killed in action (born 1920).
* 10 September – Patrick Stone, Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (born 1857).
* 12 September – Patrick R. Chalmers, writer on field sports and poet (born 1872).
* 30 September – Jack Finlay, Laois hurler and TD (born 1889).
* 6 November – Éamon a Búrc, tailor and seanchaí (born 1866).
* 23 November – Peadar Kearney, Irish Republican and songwriter, writer of the lyrics to The Soldier's Song (born 1883).