12 January – The people of Ireland donated £1,000,000 to the starving people of Italy.
13 April – Dáil Éireann sat for 20 minutes to express sympathy and pay tribute to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died the previous day. The House was then adjourned.
7 May – Reports of a German surrender brought students of Trinity College Dublin onto the roof of the university singing the English and French national anthems. A riot ensued following the burning of the Irish tricolour.
11 May – Government wartime censorship of the media was lifted.[1]
16 May – Éamon de Valera replied in a radio broadcast to British prime minister Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.
18 May – Éamon de Valera announced £12 million food and clothing aid programmed for Europe.
22 May – The Irish Legal Terms Act was signed into law, providing support for greater use of Irish in the legal system.[2]
July – Rannóg an Aistriúcháin, the Oireachtas translation service, published Litriú na Gaeilge: Lámhleabhar an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil ("Irish orthography: a handbook of the official standard").
25 July – John Kennedy interviewed the Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, on the subject of Irish Partition. He filed a story for the New York Journal-American on 29 July entitled, "Eamon de Valera Seeks to Unite All Ireland: Eire Premier Answers Dillon on Constitutional Rights".[4][5][6]