13 June – Members of the 14th Dáil assembled. Éamon de Valera became Taoiseach with one of the smallest majorities on record (74–69), forming a Fianna Fáil government with the support of independents.
1 July – Taoiseach Éamon de Valera paid his first visit to Derry in 25 years.
18 July – The Abbey Theatre in Dublin was burnt to the ground.
30 July–22 September – The now-homeless Abbey Theatre company performed a season at the Rupert Guinness Hall in the Guinness Brewery[1] before moving to the Queen's Theatre, Dublin.
^"Archive Fact Sheet: Rupert Guinness Hall" (PDF). Dublin: Guinness Storehouse. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 November 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
^Ó. Ciosáin, Niall; Hutton, Clare (2013). "The history of the book in Ireland". In Suarez, Michael F.; Woudhuysen, H. R. (eds.). The Book: A Global History. Oxford University Press. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6.