1945 in Ireland

Incumbents

• President:
• * Douglas Hyde
• * Seán T. O'Kelly
• Taoiseach: Éamon de Valera

  Events

• 1 January – most public transport came under the control of Córas Iompair Éireann.
• 12 January – the people of Ireland donated £1,000,000 to the starving people of Italy.
• 13 April – Dáil Éireann sat for 20 minutes to express sympathy and pay tribute to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died the previous day. The House was then adjourned.
• 27 April – the Fine Gael party nominated Seán Mac Eoin as their presidential election candidate in opposition to the Minister for Finance Seán T. O'Kelly.
• 2 May
• * In one of the most controversial episodes of his premiership, Taoiseach Éamon de Valera called to the German Ambassador to express his sympathy following the death of Adolf Hitler.
• * In the last Irish shipping loss due to World War II, motor fishing trawler Naom Garvan caught a naval mine in her trawl off Helvick Head, Dungarvan; all three crew were lost.
• 7 May – reports of a German surrender brought students of Trinity College Dublin onto the roof of the university singing the English and French national anthems. A riot ensued following the burning of the Irish tricolour.
• 11 May – Government censorship of the media was lifted.
• 16 May – Éamon de Valera replied in a radio broadcast to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.
• 18 May – Éamon de Valera announced £12 million food and clothing aid programmed for Europe.
• 22 May – Irish Legal Terms Act signed into law.
• 25 June – Seán T. O'Kelly was inaugurated as the second President of Ireland.
• July – Rannóg an Aistriúcháin, the Oireachtas translation service, published Litriú na Gaeilge: Lámhleabhar an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil.
• 24 July – John F. Kennedy visited Dublin as a journalist and met the Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera. He filed a story for the New York Journal-American on 29 July entitled, "Eamon de Valera Seeks to Unite All Ireland: Eire Premier Answers Dillon on Constitutional Rights".
• 21 August – two nationalist MPs took the Oath of Allegiance and entered the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster.
• 16 September – Count John McCormack, the famous tenor, died in Dublin aged 61.
• 15 October – Professor Eoin MacNeill died in Dublin aged 77. He was a founder-member of the Gaelic League and the Irish Volunteers.
• 3 December – oranges went on sale in Ireland for the first time since the end of World War II.
• 14 December – the Nuremberg Trials heard the story of German plans to create a revolution in Ireland during the War.
• 25 December – in his presidential address President Seán T. O'Kelly asked the youth of Ireland to make a particular effort to restore the Irish language.
• A "popular edition" of the Constitution of Ireland is published by the Stationery Office, amending the Irish language text.

  Arts and literature

• J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories was published posthumously in the United States.
• E. J. Moeran's Cello Concerto incorporated fragments of Irish music.
• Establishment of Irish language publisher Sáirséal agus Dill in Dublin by Seán Sairséal Ó hÉigeartaigh and his wife Bríd Ní Mhaoileoin.

  Sport

Football

Golf

• The Irish Open was not played due to The Emergency.

  Births

• 8 January – Kevin Conneff, bodhrán player and singer with The Chieftains.
• 12 January
• * Tony Maher, Cork hurler.
• * Eddie O'Brien, Cork hurler.
• 2 February – Billy Morgan, Cork Gaelic footballer and manager.
• 5 February – Michael Courtney, titular archbishop of Eanach Dúin and Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi.
• 12 February – Jimmy Keaveney, Dublin Gaelic footballer.
• 17 February – Brenda Fricker, actress.
• 17 March – Paddy Mulligan, soccer player.
• March – Bernard Durkan, Fine Gael TD for Kildare North.
• 2 April – Batt O'Keeffe, Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North-West and Minister of State.
• 8 April – Diarmuid Martin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland.
• 18 April – Margaret Hassan, aid worker in Iraq, kidnapped and murdered by Iraqi insurgents.
• 20 April – Alan Dukes, leader of Fine Gael and TD, Director General of the Institute of European Affairs.
• 26 April – Séamus Kirk, Fianna Fáil TD for Louth.
• 27 April – Dinny McGinley, Fine Gael TD for Donegal South-West.
• 4 May – Jim Higgins, Fine Gael TD, Senator and Member of the European Parliament.
• 7 May
• * Susan Denham, Chief Justice of Ireland.
• * Alexis FitzGerald Jnr, Fine Gael TD and Senator.
• * Christy Moore, folk singer.
• 21 May – Éamonn Cregan, Limerick Gaelic footballer and hurler, manager.
• 1 June – Niamh Bhreathnach, Labour Party politician, TD and Minister for Education.
• 1 June – Jarlath McDonagh, Fine Gael politician.
• 6 June – Denis Coughlan, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
• 11 June – Patrick Joseph McGrath, Irish-American bishop
• 17 June – Pat Hickey, judoka and Olympic sports administrator.
• 20 June – Denis Brennan, Bishop of Ferns.
• 30 June – Sean Scully, painter.
• June – Nora Owen, Fine Gael TD and Minister for Justice.
• 1 July – Jack Wall, Labour Party TD for Kildare South.
• 11 July – Patrick Joseph McGrath, second Roman Catholic Bishop of San Jose in California.
• July – John Dardis, Progressive Democrats Senator.
• 3 August – Eamon Dunphy, footballer, commentator and broadcaster.
• 12 September – Maria Aitken, actress, writer and director.
• 13 September – Niall FitzGerald, businessman.
• 15 September – Donie Cassidy, Fianna Fáil TD representing Longford–Westmeath, businessman.
• 20 September – Eamonn Walsh, Labour Party TD, local councillor.
• September – Gerald McCarthy, Cork hurling manager and player.
• 19 November – Christie Hennessy, folk singer songwriter.
• 6 December – Noel Skehan, Kilkenny hurler.
• 8 December – John Banville, novelist.
• 17 December – John Neill, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, Bishop of Glendalough, Primate of Ireland and Metropolitan.
• 24 December – Noel Davern, Fianna Fáil TD representing Tipperary South, Cabinet Minister, Member of the European Parliament.
• Full date unknown

  Deaths

• 30 January – Patrick Belton, Fianna Fáil and Cumann na nGaedheal TD, President of the anti-communist Irish Christian Front.
• 4 April – Henry Guinness, engineer, banker and independent member of the Seanad 1922-34.
• 20 July – Paddy Mahon, golfer.
• 24 July – Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of the assassinated Michael Collins.
• 3 October – Dermod O'Brien, painter.
• 13 October – Joseph MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.
• 15 October – Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary.
• 24 October – Frederick Field, Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord.
• 6 December – Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier of Tasmania in 1939.
• 20 December – John M. Lyle, architect in Canada.