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. Ina Boyle's first symphony, Glencree, composed in 1924–27, received its first complete performance at a Raidió Éireann studio concert. 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 League of Ireland Winners: Cork United FAI Cup Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1–0 Bohemians. 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 (assassinated 2003). 12 February – Jimmy Keaveney, Dublin Gaelic footballer. 17 February – Brenda Fricker, actress. 4 March – Tara Browne, socialite (died 1966). 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 (died 2004). 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