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Everything about The Irish Calendar totally explainedThe Irish calendar doesn't observe the typical astronomical seasons (beginning, in the Northern Hemisphere, on the equinoxes and solstices), or the meteorological seasons (beginning on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1), but rather centres the seasons around the solstices and equinoxes (so that, for instance, midsummer falls on the summer solstice), beginning the seasons at the approximate halfway points between solstice and equinox, following the seasons of the ancient Celts (see below) which are pre-Christian in origin. This Celtic origin is particularly evident in the Irish naming of many of the months: some names, like May ( Bealtaine), August ( Lughnasadh/Lúnasa) and November ( Samhain) were the names of pagan Celtic festivals. In addition, the names for September and October ( Meán Fómhair and Deireadh Fómhair respectively) translate directly as "middle of autumn" and "end of autumn". Christianity has also left its mark on the Irish months: December is Nollaig, a word also meaning Christmastide.
Seasons
Winter - An Geimhreadh
November - Samhain / Mí na Samhna
- November 1 - Samhain, All Saints Day and Lá Samhna (November Day), the first day of Winter and of the Celtic New Year
- November 2 - 1950: death of George Bernard Shaw
- November 3 - 1796 first court sittings at the Four Courts, Dublin
- November 6 - Feast of All the Saints of Ireland
- November 7 - 1791: The Custom House, Dublin, opened
- November 8 - 1847: birth of Bram Stoker
- November 10 - 1728: birth of Oliver Goldsmith
- November 11 - 1933: Abolition of appeal from courts of the Irish Free State to the Privy Council.
- November 14 - 1923 - Senator William Butler Yeats awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
- November 15 - 1951: Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Professor Ernest Walton of Trinity College, Dublin
- November 16 - 1965: death of W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
- November 17 - 1974: death in office of Erskine Hamilton Childers, President of Ireland.
- November 18 - 1982 death of Hilton Edwards, actor, director and co-founder of the Gate Theatre
- November 19 - 1798: death of Wolfe Tone
- November 20 - 1949: students and staff celebrate centenary of University College Galway
- November 21 - 1920: Bloody Sunday (1920) in Dublin
- November 22 - 1963 death of C. S. Lewis, novelist
- November 24 - 1922: Execution of Robert Erskine Childers by the Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War.
- November 25 - 1913: Irish Volunteers founded
- November 27 - 1906 death of Michael Cusack, founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association
- November 28 - 1905 founding of Sinn Féin
- November 29 - 1944 - County Dublin awarded a coat of arms by the Chief Herald of Ireland
- November 30 - 1667: birth of Jonathan Swift
December - Nollaig
December 1 - 1494: Poynings Law enacted
December 3 - 1925 Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland) made public
December 6 - Feast of Saint Nicholas, chief patron of the City of Galway
December 7 - 1972 - Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, (Voting age reduced to 18)
December 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception, for Irish Roman Catholics, a Holy Day of Obligation
December 9 - 1922: First meeting of the first Senate of the Irish Free State
December 10 - 1974: Seán McBride former Minister for External Affairs presented with Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
December 11 - 1921 Sack of Cork by Black and Tans
December 12 - 1927 first independent Irish coinage circulated
December 13 - Feast of Saint Lucy (the following Wednesday, Friday and Saturday were observed as Quarter tense)
December 14 - 1918: Last all-Ireland general election to the UK House of Commons
December 15 - 1993: Downing Street Declaration issued by UK and Irish Governments
December 17 - 1834: opening of the first Irish railway - the Dublin and Kingstown Railway
December 18 - Feast of Saint Flannan patron of the Diocese of Killaloe, County Clare
December 19 - 1974: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh inaugurated as President of Ireland.
December 21 1948 The Republic of Ireland Act is signed into law by President Seán T. O'Kelly at Áras an Uachtaráin in the presence of the Government of Ireland (see April 18, 1949)
December 22 - 1989: death of Samuel Beckett, Saoi of Aosdána
December 23 - 1920: Government of Ireland Act passed
December 25 - Christmas Day (Public Holiday), one of the four Irish Quarter days
December 26 - St. Stephen's Day (Public Holiday)
December 29 - 1937: Constitution of Ireland comes into operation.
December 31 - 1961: RTÉ, then Telefís Éireann, begins programming
January - Eanáir
January 1 - New Year's Day, one of the public holidays in the Republic of Ireland.
January 2 - St. Munchin, Patron of the Diocese of Limerick
January 4 - 1986 death of Phil Lynott, member of Thin Lizzy
January 3 - 1946: execution of William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw
January 5 - Twelfth Night
January 6 - Little Christmas (Nollaig Bheag) and/or Women's Christmas (Nollaig na mBan)
January 7 - 1922: Anglo-Irish Treaty ratified by Dáil Éireann
January 8 - 1968: Taoiseach Jack Lynch meets Terence O'Neill in Dublin
January 10 - 1910 marriage of Sinéad Flanagan and Éamon de Valera
January 13 - 1941: death of James Joyce
January 14 - 1961 death of Barry Fitzgerald, actor
January 15 - 1988 death of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Seán McBride
January 16 - 1922: Michael Collins accepts surrender of Dublin Castle from the Viceroy, Lord Fitzalan
January 17 - 1860: birth of Douglas Hyde
January 20 - 1915 death of Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun of Ashford Castle
January 21 - 1919: Meeting of the First Dáil in the Mansion House, Dublin
January 22 - 1971: Ireland signs Treaty of Accession to European Economic Community in Brussels
January 24 - 1901 - Proclamation of Edward VII as King in Dublin Castle
January 27 - 1967: Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association founded
January 28 - 1939: death of William Butler Yeats
January 30 - 1808 work begins on Nelson's Pillar, Dublin.
January 31 - St. Aidan, Patron of the Diocese of Ferns
Spring - An tEarrach (February, March and April)
February - Feabhra
February 1 - Imbolc, Feast of St Brigid (Secondary Patron of Ireland) and Lá Feabhra, the first day of Spring
February 2 - Candlemas, more commonly, in Ireland, called the Presentation of the Lord
February 3 - feast of Saint Blaise
February 4 - 1948: Irish general election for the 13th Dáil
February 5 - 1921 death of Katherine Parnell (Kitty O'Shea), widow of Charles Stewart Parnell
February 6 - Feast of St. Mel, patron of the Diocese of Ardagh
February 8 - 1933: First meeting of the 8th Dáil
February 9 - 1926 birth of Garret FitzGerald, future Taoiseach
February 13 - 1893: Gladstone introduces second Home Rule bill
February 14 - St. Valentine's Day (relics of St. Valentine held in Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin.
February 15 - 1971: Decimal Day- Ireland abandons £sd.
February 16 - 1932: Irish general election for the 7th Dáil
February 17 - 1987: Irish general election for the 25th Dáil
February 18 - 1948 First meeting of the 13th Dáil
February 19 - 1366: Statutes of Kilkenny promulgated
February 24 - 1582: Bull of Pope Gregory XIII, for reform of calendar, issued at Rome
February 25 - 1949: Noel Browne announces emergency drive to eliminate tuberculosis
February 28 - 1965 state funeral begins (with reinterment on March 1) of Roger Casement who was executed in 1916
February 28 - 1973: Irish general election for the 20th Dáil
March - Márta
March 1 - 1981: Bobby Sands begins hunger strike in HM Prison Maze
March 3 - Charter of Trinity College, Dublin granted.
March 4 - 1986 death of Edward McLysaght, former Chief Herald of Ireland
March 5 - Feast of St. Kieran, patron of the Diocese of Ossory
March 6 - 1152: Synod of Kells convenes.
March 7 - 1848: first unveiling of the Irish tricolour (in Waterford).
- 1965 - following the liturgical changes of the Second Vatican Council, Mass in Ireland is read for the first time in the English and Irish languages
March 8 - 1966: Nelson's Pillar destroyed in explosion
March 9 - 1932: First meeting of the 7th Dáil
March 10 - 1894: Ireland wins Rugby Triple Crown for first time
March 11 - 1987: Dr. Garret FitzGerald resigns as leader of Fine Gael. Succeeded by Alan Dukes
March 13 - 1979: Ireland joins new European Monetary System (EMS)
March 14 - 1973: First meeting of the 20th Dáil
March 17 - Saint Patrick's Day (public holiday), and for Irish Roman Catholics, a Holy Day of Obligation
March 18 - 1899: Ireland wins Rugby Triple Crown for 2nd time
March 19 - 1921: An IRA column escaped from British troops at the Crossbarry Ambush
March 20 - 1920 assassination by the British of Thomas McCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork
March 21 - 1978 death of Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh former President of Ireland
March 22 - 1987 Launch of Irish National Lottery
March 23 - 1971: Brian Faulkner elected PM of Northern Ireland
March 24 - Feast of Saint Macartan, patron of the Diocese of Clogher
March 25 - One of the four Irish Quarter days
March 26 - 1931 death of Timothy Michael Healy, first Governor-General of the Irish Free State
March 28 - 1985 Gaisce, (The President's Awards]], created
March 29 - 1859: first issue of The Irish Times
March 30 - 1979: Ireland announces ending of one-for-one parity with sterling.
March 31 - 1931 death of Lord Glenavy, (Sir James Henry Mussen Campbell), lawyer, Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1918-1921, Cathaoirleach of the 1922 Seanad and of the 1925 Seanad
April - Aibreán
April 1 - April Fool's Day - Lá na nAmadán
April - 1914: Cumann na mBan founded
April 4 - 1900 Queen Victoria begins her last visit to Ireland
April 6 - 1926 birth of Ian Paisley, current leader of Democratic Unionist Party
April 7 - 1720 - Passing of the Declaratory Act 1720
April 8 - Gladstone introduces first Home Rule bill.
April 10 - 1966: Commemoration of 50th anniversary of Easter Rising begins
April 11 - 1912 - RMS Titanic leaves Cobh, County Cork on ill-fated maiden voyage
April 13 - 1742: world premiere of Handel's Messiah in Dublin
April 14 - 1983 inaugural meeting od Aosdána in The Old Parliament House, Dublin
April 15 -1941 beginning of the Belfast Blitz
April 16 - 1871: birth of John Millington Synge
April 17 - 1783: British Renunciation Act recognises Irish legislative independence
April 18 - Feast of Saint Laserian, patron of Leighlin Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin.
April 19 - 1875: Charles Stewart Parnell elected MP for Meath
April 20 - 1912: death of Bram Stoker
April 21 - 1916: Roger Casement lands at Banna Strand
April 22 - 1996 death of Molly Keane, novelist and playwright
April 23 - 1014: Battle of Clontarf and death of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland on Good Friday
- 1831 - Creation of the Diocese of Galway
April 24 - 1916: Start of the Easter Rising and the reading of The Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
April 25 - 1882: Kilmainham Treaty signed by Charles Stewart Parnell and British Government
April 26 - 1916 - Martial law declared in Dublin bey the British as a consequence of the Easter Rising
April 27 - 1653: The last major body of Irish Catholic troops under Phillip O'Reilly surrender to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland at Cloughoughter in Cavan. End of the Irish Confederate Wars (begun 1641).
April 28 - 1958: Aer Lingus service to North America inaugurated
April 29 - 1916: Easter Rising ends with surrender
April 30 - 1994: First performance of Riverdance at Eurovision Song Contest
Summer - An Samhradh (May, June and July)
May - Bealtaine
The first Monday in May is a public holiday.
May 1 - Beltane and Lá Bealtaine, the first day of Summer
May 2 - 1872: St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin becomes the National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland
May 3 - Feast of Saint Conleth, patron of Kildare Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin
May 4 - Leaders of the Easter Rising, Joseph Plunkett, Michael O'Hanrahan, Edward Daly and Willie Pearse executed
May 5 - 1916 - Easter Rising leader John McBride executed by the British
May 6 - 1074: death of Dúnán, first bishop of Dublin
May 7 - 1915: Lusitania sunk off Old Head of Kinsale
May 8 - 1916 Easter Rising leaders Eamon Ceannt, Con Colbert, Michael Mallin and Seán Heuston executed by the British
May 10 - 1972, Third Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, (EU membership)
May 11 - 1967: Ireland applies to join European Economic Community
May 12 - 1916 execution of Easter Rising leaders Seán MacDiarmada and James Connolly by the British
May 13 - 653 (Pentecost Sunday): Monastery founded on Iona by Saint Columcille
May 14 - Feast of Saint Mochuda (Carthage), patron of Lismore Diocese of Waterford and Lismore
May 15 - 1847: death of Daniel O'Connell at Genoa
May 16 - Feast of Saint Brendan, patron of the Diocese of Clonfert
May 17 - 2002 - Irish general election for the 29th Dáil
May 18 - 1939 - the Earl of Iveagh presents his Dublin townhouse, Iveagh House to the people of Ireland - it becomes the headquarters of the Department of Foreign Affairs
May 19 - 1870: Home Rule movement founded by Isaac Butt in Dublin.
May 21 - 1799: Bill of Union (later the Act of Union) introduced in Irish House of Commons
May 24 - 1487: Lambert Simnel crowned "Edward VI of England" in Dublin.
May 25 - 1914: Third Home Rule bill passed by British Parliament
May 26 - 1972: Special Criminal Court established in RoI
May 30 - death of Michael Davitt land reform camoaigner
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