page_title: 1946 in Ireland
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1946 in Ireland / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: George Bernard Shaw
context_page_description: Events from the year 1946 in Ireland.
context_section_description: 3 January – William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, is hanged in Wandsworth Prison for treason.
  7 January – the Minister for Education, Thomas Derrig, 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.
  12 August – a plane bringing 23 French Girl Guides to Dublin crashes into the side of Djouce in the Wicklow Mountains.
  29 August – George Bernard Shaw is honoured by being made a freeman of Dublin.
  2 September – the Emergency Powers Act 1939 expires. The Defence Forces (Requisitions of Emergency) Order, 1940, is also revoked by Order (signed 28 August) with effect from this date.
  September – the Marine Service is formally disbanded and replaced by the Naval Service as a permanent component of the Irish Defence Forces.
  6 October – seventy primary school teachers protest about low pay on the pitch at Croke Park at half-time during the Kerry-Roscommon All-Ireland Football Final.
  22 November – Walt Disney arrives in Dublin. He has a meeting with the Irish Folklore Commission to further his investigation of leprechauns for a forthcoming film.
  18 December – the government announces the release of 24 internees, including Brendan Behan.
caption: George Bernard Shaw
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