Born in 1941

A selection from Wikipedia's '1941 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 24 January – Part of the old State Chambers in Dublin Castle were destroyed by fire.
• 20 February – The emergency Scientific Research Bureau was set up to seek alternatives to raw materials in short supply.
• 21 February – The first flight by a British Royal Air Force (RAF) flying boat took place through the "Donegal Corridor", Irish airspace between its base in Northern Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean, a concession secretly agreed by Éamon de Valera.
• 6 March – 3,800 animals were slaughtered after the 50th case of foot-and-mouth disease was announced.
• 21 March – The Glencullen (Capt. T. Waldron) and Glencree (Capt. D. McLean) were machine-gunned by the Luftwaffe in the Bristol Channel.
• 7 May – Wages Standstill Order.
• 12 October – Charles Stewart Parnell, "the uncrowned King of Ireland," was honoured in a huge pageant in Dublin.
• 8 December – The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Winston Churchill cabled the Taoiseach inviting him to join the Allies of World War II.

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