22 March – the Irish Government leases a residence in the Phoenix Park to the United States government for a period of 99 years. It will be the residence of the U.S. ambassador.
29 April – Major de Courcy Wheeler, the man who accepted the surrender of Patrick Pearse in 1916, presents President Seán T. O'Kelly with Pearse's revolver at a special function at Áras an Uachtaráin.
24 August – TánaisteWilliam Norton tells the European Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg that Ireland would not agree to a customs union of western European states.
8 November – street names in any language other than English are prohibited by an Amendment to a Bill passed in the Senate of Northern Ireland.