Events from the year 1935 in Ireland. Incumbents Governor-General: Domhnall Ua Buachalla President of the Executive Council: Éamon de Valera (FF) Events 3 January – an Anglo-Irish Coal-Cattle Pact is signed between the governments of Britain and the Irish Free State. 20 January – forty men from the Connemara Gaeltacht travel to County Meath to inspect the area which is to be settled by residents of the Gaeltacht. 27 January – relics and souvenirs of the 1916 Easter Rising arrive at the National Museum. 19 February – workmen unearth a statue of Jesus during excavations for road making in County Clare. 28 February – the Criminal Law Amendment Act deals with various sexual offences. Section 17 explicitly makes the import or sale of contraceptive devices illegal. 3 March – in his Lenten pastoral the Thomas O'Doherty, Bishop of Galway, denounces immodest dress and vulgar films. Membership of Trinity College Dublin is still forbidden for Catholics and membership of the IRA and Communist organizations remain mortal sins. 20 March – after seventeen days of a bus strike, the army intervenes at the request of the Minister for Industry and Commerce by providing lorries for transport. 26 March – 72 republicans are arrested and held at the Bridewell Garda Station. 1 April – the National Athletics and Cycling Association is suspended from the International Amateur Athletic Federation for refusing to confine its activities to the Free State side of the border. 12 April – eleven families from the Connemara Gaeltacht arrive in County Meath to set up the Ráth Cairn Gaeltacht. 14 July – five people are killed and seventy injured as a result of sectarian rioting in Belfast. 26 October – Edward Carson, Baron Carson, the Dublin-born Unionist leader and barrister, is buried in Belfast. 9 November – Arranmore boat tragedy: 19 of 20 onboard are killed when a yawl runs aground on the crossing from Burtonport. 7 December – a bad day for Irish sport: the Ireland national rugby union team is beaten by New Zealand and the Irish soccer team is beaten by the Netherlands. 16 December – Foynes in County Limerick is chosen to be the European terminal of a transatlantic flying boat air service. Undated In the first major investigation into political corruption in Ireland since the formation of the Free State, the "Wicklow Gold Inquiry" clears Seán Lemass (Minister for Industry and Commerce) of wrongdoing in