Events from the year 1946 in Ireland. Incumbents President: Seán T. O'Kelly Taoiseach: Éamon de Valera (FF) Tánaiste: Seán Lemass (FF) Minister for Finance: Frank Aiken (FF) Chief Justice: Timothy Sullivan (until 1 June 1946) Conor Maguire (from 1 June 1946) Dáil: 12th Seanad: 5th Events 3 January – William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, is hanged in Wandsworth Prison for treason. 7 January – the Minister for Education, Thomas Derrig, announces that because refugee children who arrived in Ireland during the war do not have a sufficient knowledge of the Irish language they cannot obtain the Leaving Certificate. 21 January – work starts on a comprehensive Irish-English dictionary. 4 February – it is announced that George Bernard Shaw is to be awarded the freedom of Dublin. 17 June – Aer Lingus inaugurates a Dublin-Paris air service. 6 July – a new republican political party, Clann na Poblachta, is formed in Dublin. 25 July – Éamon de Valera's motion to apply for membership of the United Nations is accepted in the Dáil. 6 August – on the first anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Captain Bob Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the bomb, arrives at Shannon Airport, completing his first flight as a civil aviation pilot. 12 August – a plane bringing 23 French Girl Guides to Dublin crashes on Djouce in the Wicklow Mountains with no fatalities. 29 August – George Bernard Shaw is honoured by being made a freeman of Dublin. 2 September – the Emergency Powers Act 1939 expires. The Defence Forces (Requisitions of Emergency) Order, 1940, is also revoked by Order (signed 28 August) with effect from this date. September – the Marine Service is formally disbanded and replaced by the Naval Service as a permanent component of the Irish Defence Forces. 6 October – seventy primary school teachers protest about low pay on the pitch at Croke Park at half-time during the Kerry-Roscommon All-Ireland Football Final. 22 November – Walt Disney arrives in Dublin. He has a meeting with the Irish Folklore Commission to further his investigation of leprechauns for a forthcoming film. 18 December – the government announces the release of 24 internees, including Brendan Behan. Arts and literature 5 August – Frank Carney's religious melodrama The Righteous are Bold opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, where it runs for an unprecedented 14 weeks. Denis Devlin publishes his Lough