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
Sport
Golf
Motor racing
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
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 )
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