Events from the year 1930 in Ireland. Incumbents Governor-General: James McNeill President of the Executive Council: W. T. Cosgrave (CnaG) Events John Dulanty begins a 20-year spell as Ireland's High Commissioner (later, Ambassador) to London. 31 December – Mayo County Council is dissolved by ministerial order for refusing to appoint Miss Letitia Dunbar-Harrison to the position of county librarian on the grounds that she is a Protestant. Arts and literature 1 July – George Shiels' play The New Gossoon is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. 28 August – a painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, found in an Irish cottage, is authenticated. 17 November – W. B. Yeats' 1-act play The Words Upon The Window Pane is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Samuel Beckett's first separately issued work, the poem Whoroscope, is published by Nancy Cunard's Hours Press in France. George Moore publishes Aphrodite in Aulis and A Flood. 'Æ' (George William Russell) publishes Enchantment, and Other Poems. Sport Football League of Ireland Winners: Bohemians FAI Cup Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1 – 0 Brideville Golf Irish Open is won by Charles Whitcombe (England). Births 4 January – Tras Honan, Fianna Fáil politician, twice Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann 7 January – Justin Keating, senior Irish Labour Party politician, Teachta Dála, Cabinet Minister, Member of the European Parliament and member of Seanad Éireann (died 2009) 12 January – Jennifer Johnston, novelist and playwright 18 January – Breandán Ó hEithir, journalist and broadcaster working in Irish and English languages (died 1990) 22 February – David Cremin, Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney 30 March – Fergus O'Brien, Fine Gael TD and Minister of State 13 March – Don Cockburn, television newsreader (died 2017) 1 April – Frank Cluskey, leader of the Irish Labour Party (died 1989) 12 April – Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, peer and public servant (died 2003) 26 April – Jack Fitzsimons, architect, member of Seanad Éireann and campaigner (died 2014) 10 May – William McDermott, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huancavélica, Peru 13 June – Billy Ringrose, equestrian (died 2020) 27 June – Enda McDonagh, priest (died 2021) 28 June – William C. Campbell, parasitologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 13 August – Frank Durkan, lawyer in the United States (died 2006) 19 August – Frank McCourt, teacher and writer 29 August – Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Gaelic