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See also:	1930 in Northern Ireland; Other events of 1930; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1930 in Ireland.

Incumbents

Events

John Dulanty begins a 20-year spell as Ireland's High Commissioner (later, Ambassador) to London.^[1]
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.^[2]

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.^[3]
Samuel Beckett's first separately issued work, the poem Whoroscope, is published by Nancy Cunard's Hours Press in France.^[4]
George Moore publishes Aphrodite in Aulis and A Flood.
'Æ' (George William Russell) publishes Enchantment, and Other Poems.^[4]

Sport

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 (died 2009)
29 August – Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Gaelic games commentator for Radio Telifís Éireann
30 August – Kieran Crotty, Fine Gael TD
9 September – Des Hanafin, Fianna Fáil politician, member of Seanad Éireann (died 2017)
14 September – George Eogan, archaeologist, member of Seanad Éireann (died 2021)
26 September – Joe Sherlock, Labour Party TD (died 2007)
1 October – Richard Harris, actor (died 2002)
5 October – Sean Potts, tin whistle player with The Chieftains (died 2014)
11 October – Joan O'Hara, actress (died 2007)
22 October – Philomena Lynott, entrepreneur and memoirist (died 2019)
23 October – Thomas Flanagan, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Antonio (died 2019)
4 November – Gerry Duffy, cricketer
17 November – Brian Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister, senator and presidential candidate (died 1995)
15 December – Edna O'Brien, novelist and short story writer (died 2024)
Full date unknown
- Edward Delaney, sculptor
- Maeve Kelly, writer
- Seán Ó Coisdealbha, poet, playwright and actor (died 2006)
- Bertie Troy, priest, hurler and All-Ireland winning manager with Cork (died 2007)

Deaths

26 September – Dick Fitzgerald, Kerry Gaelic footballer (born 1882)
29 September – Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (born 1862)
1 October – James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (born 1864)
31 October – Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony, Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist (born 1850)
30 November – Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and socialist in the United States (born 1830)