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.
6 August – on the first anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, CaptainBob 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.
2 September – the Emergency Powers Act 1939 expires.[2] 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.
18 December – the government announces the release of 24 internees, including Brendan Behan.
Arts and literature
5 August – Frank Carney's religious melodrama The Righteous are Bold opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, where it runs for an unprecedented 14 weeks.[3]
Denis Devlin publishes his Lough Derg and Other Poems in New York.