1941 in Ireland

Events

January 2 - Three Carlow women are killed in a night of bombing in parts of Leinster.
January 13 - The poet and novelist James Joyce dies in Switzerland.
January 24 - Part of the old State Chambers in Dublin Castle are destroyed by fire.
March 6 - 3,800 animals are slaughtered after the fiftieth case of foot & mouth disease is announced.
March 20 - Bread rationing is introduced.
March 22 16:00 hours - Collier St. Fintan attacked by two Luftwaffe bombers, off the coast of Pembrokeshire and sunk with all hands - 9 dead.
April 15 - The Belfast blitz 1,000 people are killed in bombing raids on Belfast. 71 fire men with 13 fire tenders from Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, and Dún Laoghaire crossed the Irish border to assist their Belfast colleagues.
May 5 - Belfast suffers its third bombing raid during World War II. The Dublin government authorises its emergency services to assist.
May 14 - Five outbreaks of foot and mouth diesase are reported in Ireland.
May 26 - A special sitting of Dáil Éireann unanimously condemns the intoduction of conscription in Northern Ireland.
May 27 - Speaking in the House of Commons Prime Minister Winston Churchill rules out the introduction of conscription in the North.
May 31 - 34 people are killed when the Luftwaffe bomb part of Dublin.
August 22 - S.S. Clonlara torpedo and sunk by U-564 in North Atlantic, while in convoy OG71 - 11 dead.
October 12 - Charles Stewart Parnell, the uncrowned King of Ireland, is honoured in a huge pageant in Dublin.