See also: 1942 in Ireland, other events of 1944, 1944 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.

Events

• February 1 - The Central Bank of Ireland is established; it was not however not given all then powers expected of a central bank.
• February 24 - Thirty-five girls from an industrial school in Cavan are killed in a fire in their dormitories.
• March 17 - Eamon de Valera and his government celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a céilí in the Great Hall of Dublin Castle.
• May 1 - Sir Basil Brooke becomes Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
• October 5 - In the largest manufacturing campaign in the history of the Irish Sugar Company, 700 employees at the Carlow Sugar Beet Factory will work in three shifts without pause for 18 weeks until all the 230,000 acres (930 km²) of beet is processed.

Arts and literature

Sports

Births

• September 30 - Ray Burke, former Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister.
• October 31 - Stephen Rea, actor.

Deaths