1924 in Ireland

Incumbents

• Governor-General: Tim Healy
• President of the Executive Council: W. T. Cosgrave

  Events

• 15 January – the last internee at Kilmainham Gaol, Ernie O'Malley, is transferred to St. Bricin's Military Hospital.
• 7-18 March – Irish Army Mutiny over demobilisation within the National Army, led by Liam Tobin's Irish Republican Army Organisation. The outcome affirms subservience of the military to the civilian government.
• 20 April – Sinn Féin commemorates the anniversary of the events of the 1916 Easter Rising.
• 24 April – no agreement is reached at the Boundary Conference in London. The Irish Boundary Commission is now set up to examine the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.
• 5 May – Dublin Corporation officially renames Sackville Street to O'Connell Street.
• 6 May – James Craig refuses to nominate a Northern Ireland representative to the Boundary Commission.
• 30 May – a new licensing Bill is introduced by the Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins. Bars are allowed open between 9am and 10pm and the sale of alcohol is limited to those over the age of 18.
• 5 June – in an austerity budget, the Minister for Finance, the only Northern Ireland Protestant to serve on a Republic of Ireland cabinet, Ernest Blythe brings in the Old Age Pensions Act 1924, which cuts the old age pension by 10%, from 10/= to 9/= ; an action still remembered with bitterness in Ireland.
• 3 July – the Minister for Education, Eoin MacNeill, announces that the teaching of Irish is to be made compulsory in all schools.
• 18 August – Ireland's first rodeo opens at Croke Park.
• 1 October – Defence Forces established, incorporating the National Army.
• 24 October – Éamon de Valera is arrested at Newry Town Hall after defying an order preventing him from speaking in Northern Ireland.
• 7 November – the President of the Executive Council, W. T. Cosgrave, announces an amnesty for criminal acts committed during the Civil War in connection with the attempt to overthrow the lawfully established government.
• 19 November – Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, dies, having held office since 1887, and is succeeded by Patrick O'Donnell.

  Arts and literature

• 3 March – Seán O'Casey's drama Juno and the Paycock opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
• May – in the Art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Jack Butler Yeats wins a silver medal for painting for Swimming.
• Daniel Corkery publishes the study of 18th century Irish poetry The Hidden Ireland.
• George Moore publishes the novel Peronnik the Fool.
• Liam O'Flaherty publishes his short story collection Spring Sowing.
• W. B. Yeats publishes the drama The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems.
• Eileen Gray begins work with Jean Badovici on their vacation home E-1027 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France.
• Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone stage an exhibition of their abstract art in Dublin.

  Sport

Football

• ;League of Ireland
• :Winners: Bohemians
• ;FAI Cup
• :Winners: Athlone Town 1–0 Fordsons

  Gaelic Games

• The All-Ireland Champions are Dublin and Kerry

  Births

• 14 January – Francis Gerard Brooks, Bishop of Dromore.
• 25 January – Tomás Mac Giolla, TD and leader of the Workers' Party.
• 28 January – Sonny Hool, cricketer.
• 8 March – Sean McClory, actor.
• 13 March – Myrtle Allen, chef.
• 26 May – Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont.
• 30 May – Tom Leonard, Fianna Fáil TD.
• 26 June – Dermot Ryan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin.
• 14 July – Mick Kennefick, Cork hurler.
• 3 August – Jim Gibbons, Fianna Fáil TD, Member of the European Parliament and Cabinet Minister.
• 21 August – David Marcus, writer.
• 7 September – Donal Creed, Fine Gael TD and MEP.
• 5 October – Kieron Moore, actor.
• 21 December – Christy O'Connor Snr, golfer.
• Approximate date – George Redmond, Assistant City and County Manager in Dublin, accused of corruption.

  Deaths

• 29 March – Charles Villiers Stanford, composer.
• 18 May – James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon, Deputy Lieutenant in Ireland.
• 26 May – Victor Herbert, composer, cellist and conductor.
• 5 June – William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel, peer and Liberal politician.
• 6 June – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman.
• 20 June – James Nowlan, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association .
• 12 December – William Carrigan, Canon of the Diocese of Ossory and historian.
• Full date unknown – Anne Marjorie Robinson, miniature painter.