See also: 1940 in Ireland, other events of 1941, 1942 in Ireland and the list of 'years 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.
• April 22 - 500 people are killed and 2,000 people are injured in bombing raids on Belfast.
• May 5 - Belfast suffers its third bombing raid during World War II. Emergency services from the South are sent to assist in the destruction which ensues.
• 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.
• October 12 - Charles Stewart Parnell, the uncrowned King of Ireland, is honoured in a huge pageant in Dublin.

Sports

Births

• April 18 - Michael D. Higgins, Labour Party TD and former Cabinet Minister.
• October 13 - Mick Doyle, former rugby player and coach.

Deaths

• January 13 - James Joyce, writer and poet.