1935 in Ireland

Events from the year 1935 in Ireland.

Incumbents

3 January – An Anglo-Irish Coal-Cattle Pact was signed between the governments of Britain and the Irish Free State.
20 January – Forty men from the Connemara Gaeltacht travelled to County Meath to inspect the area which was to be settled by residents of the Gaeltacht.
27 January – Relics and souvenirs of the 1916 Easter Rising arrived at the National Museum.

28 February – The Criminal Law Amendment Act dealt with various sexual offences. Section 17 explicitly made the import or sale of contraceptive devices illegal.

3 March – In his Lenten pastoral, Thomas O'Doherty, Bishop of Galway, denounced immodest dress and vulgar films. Membership of Trinity College Dublin was still forbidden for Catholics and membership of the Irish Republican Army and Communist organisations remained mortal sins.
20 March – After 17 days of a bus strike, the army intervened at the request of the Minister for Industry and Commerce by providing lorries for transport.
26 March – Seventy-two Republicans were arrested and held at the Bridewell Garda station.

1 April – The National Athletics and Cycling Association was suspended from the International Amateur Athletic Federation for refusing to confine its activities to the Free State side of the British-Irish border.
12 April – Eleven families from the Connemara Gaeltacht arrived in County Meath to set up the Ráth Cairn Gaeltacht.

9 November – Arranmore boat tragedy: 19 of 20 on board were killed when a yawl ran aground on the crossing from Burtonport.

7 December – The Ireland national rugby union team was beaten by New Zealand and the Irish association football team was beaten by the Netherlands.
16 December – Foynes in County Limerick was chosen to be the European terminal of a transatlantic flying boat air service.

In the first major investigation into political corruption in Ireland since the formation of the Free State, the "Wicklow Gold Inquiry" cleared the Minister for Industry and Commerce Seán Lemass of wrongdoing in the granting of mining licences in County Wicklow to Fianna Fáil party politicians.
William Magner began commercial cider production in Clonmel, County Tipperary.

2 April – First meeting of the Irish Folklore Commission, set up by the government under the direction of Séamus Ó Duilearga to study and collect information on folklore and traditions.
12 August – Seán O'Casey's play The Silver Tassie, set in World War I and premièred in 1929 in London, was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, where it proved to be controversial.
23 September – The fourth Theatre Royal opened in Dublin.
Samuel Beckett published his poetry, Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates.
Sinéad de Valera produced her play .
Oliver St. John Gogarty published his first prose work, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street: A Phantasy in Fact.
Norah Hoult published her novel Holy Ireland.
Louis MacNeice published his Poems.