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| 1938 |
| | | Irish author Samuel Beckett publishes his first novel, Murphy | |
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| 1939 |
| | | James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is published after 17 years in the making | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Irish author Flann O'Brien publishes his first novel, At Swim-Two-Birds | |
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| 1939 February 2 |
| | | De Valera declares that Eire will be neutral in any forthcoming European war | |
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| 1939 September 17 |
| | | A German U-boat sinks the British aircraft carrier Courageous off the coast of Ireland | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman is rejected by numerous publishers before becoming, decades later, his best-known novel | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Lord Craigavon (previously James Craig) dies in office after nineteen years as northern Ireland's prime minister | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Basil Brooke begins an unbroken 20-year period in office as Unionist prime minister of northern Ireland | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Eire is renamed the republic of Ireland and withdraws from the Commonwealth, severing the last link with the British crown | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The British government declares that northern Ireland will remain British unless the parliament in Stormont decides otherwise | |
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