1937 in Ireland

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Events

• January 22 - The National Council of Women of Ireland is agitating to form a women's police force.
• April 8 - All political parties and Church leaders gather at the Mansion House, Dublin to pay tribute to the Chief Rabbi, Dr. Herzog, who is leaving to take up the new post of Chief Rabbi of Palestine.
• April 14 - The Minister for Finance, Seán MacEntee, delivers his budget. He reduces the costs of butter, sugar and tea.
• April 30 - Éamon de Valera introduces the new Constitution of Ireland. It recognises the institution of marriage and the family, as well as the special position of the Catholic Church.
• May 11 - The Constitution Bill receives its second reading in Dáil Éireann. Éamon de Valera dismisses claims that the Constitution of Ireland provides for a dictatorship.
• May 13 - A bronze statue of King George II in St Stephen's Green is blown to pieces.
• May 25 - An amendment to the Constitution of Ireland proposing membership of the Commonwealth is rejected.
• June 14 - The Draft Constitution is passed in the Dáil by 62 votes to 48. The Eighth Dáil is also dissolved and a general election is called.
• June 30 - Éamon de Valera winds up an election tour with a huge rally in College Green, Dublin.
• 1 July - Fianna Fáil wins the general election. The plebiscite on the Constitution of Ireland is passed by 56.5% of voters.
• July 5 - Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass inspect the flying boat Caledonia before its survey flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
• August 26 - The Irish Times newspaper publishes its 25,000th edition.
• August 27 - Dublin's first automatic traffic signals come into operation at the junction of Merrion Square and Clare Street.
• October 12 - Kathleen Clarke (widow of Tom Clarke) addresses the Fianna Fáil Ardfheis. She tells the party that its moving away from its original values of republicanism.
• November 10 - The text of a new bill providing a seal of office for the President of Ireland is introduced in Dáil Éireann.
• December 6 - The Seal of the President of Ireland is photographed for archive purposes.
• December 11 - The Kelly Line steamer Annagher sank at Ballymacormick Point with the loss of 9 crew. There was only one survivor.
• December 29 - The Constitution of Ireland comes into force. A 21-gun salute is fired from the Royal Hospital and the national flag flies over all public buildings.

Sport

Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Sligo Rovers

• FAI Cup

Winners: Waterford 2 - 1 St James' Gate

Gaelic Athletic Association

• All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Winners: Kerry 4-4 v Cavan 1-7 (played at Croke Park, Dublin)

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Winners: Tipperary 3-11 v Kilkenny 0-3 (played at FitzGerald Stadium, Killarney)

Golf

• Irish Open is won by Bert Gadd (England).

Births

• 4 January - Mick O'Connell, former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
• 27 April - Robin Eames, Church of Ireland Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.
• 20 May - Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, peer and Seanad member (died 1992).
• 31 May - Mary O'Rourke, former Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister.
• 3 June - Ray Brady, soccer player.
• 13 July - Ollie Walsh, Kilkenny hurler (died 1996).
• 19 August - Niall Andrews, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (died 2006).
• 26 September - Seán Fallon, Fianna Fáil politician, Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 1992 until his death. (died 1995)
• October - Richard Johnston, President of the Irish High Court.
• 15 December - Rodney Bernstein, cricketer.
• 25 December - Noel Furlong, businessman and poker player.

Full date unknown

• Ronnie Nolan, soccer player.

Deaths

• 31 January - Samuel Edgar, cricketer (born 1913).
• 3 February - Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist MP (born 1871).
• 27 February - Charles Donnelly, poet, killed at the Jarama Front, Spanish Civil War (born 1914).
• 27 June - Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (born 1902).
• 14 July - Thomas Myles, surgeon, Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for the Irish Volunteers in 1914 (born 1857).
• 5 November - Jack McAuliffe, boxer (born 1886).
• 23 November - Con Collins, Sinn Féin MP (born 1881).

Full date unknown

• Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic (born 1882).
• Leonard Greenham Star Molloy, soldier, doctor, M.P. (born 1861).
• Tomás Ó Criomhthain, writer (born 1856).