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Events

• February 2 - Éamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
• April 11 - Minister for Health Dr. Noel Browne resigns and his Mother and Child Scheme is overturned.
• April 19 - The Northern Ireland Attorney-General, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, says that Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth.
• May 24 - Gardaí exchange shots with two men after they throw a bomb at the British Embassy in Dublin.
• June 8 - Jack Doyle defeats America's 'Beer Baron' Two-Ton Tony Gelanto at Tolka Park.
• June 10 - Justice George Gavan Duffy, one of the signatories of the Treaty in 1921, dies in Dublin.
• June 13 - Éamon de Valera becomes Taoiseach with one of the smallest majorities on record 74-69.
• July 1 - Taoiseach Éamon de Valera pays his first visit to Derry in 25 years.
• July 18 - The Abbey Theatre in Dublin is burnt to the ground.
• November 15 - The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded jointly to Professor Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin and Sir John Cockcroft.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Cork Athletic

• FAI Cup

Winners: Transport 1 - 1, 1 - 0 Shelbourne.

Golf

• Irish Open - no tournament held.

Births

January to March

• 4 January - Paddy Roche, soccer player.
• 25 January - M. J. Nolan, Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow–Kilkenny and former Senator.
• 27 January - Brian Downey, drummer.
• 4 February - Patrick Bergin, actor.
• 6 February - Margo, singer.
• 14 February - Alan Shatter, Fine Gael TD for Dublin South.
• 1 March - J. P. McManus, businessman and racehorse owner.
• 16 March - John Egan, former Dublin GAA County Chairman (d.2007).
• 25 March - Gerard Murphy, Fine Gael TD representing Cork North West.

April to June

• 4 April - Alan Hughes, cricketer.
• 24 April - Enda Kenny, current leader of Fine Gael, TD for Mayo.
• 1 May - Michael McDowell, founding member of Progressive Democrats, former TD, Cabinet Minister, and Attorney-General.
• 21 May - Ray O'Brien, soccer player.
• 26 May - Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, former Fine Gael TD, councillor.
• 6 June - Frank Fahey, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway West.
• 12 June - Nóirín Ní Riain, singer, musician, writer, theologian.
• 27 June - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland.

July to December

• July - Anne Colley, former Progressive Democrats politician.
• 30 August - Dana Rosemary Scallon, Eurovision Song Contest winner and former MEP.
• 12 September - Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil.
• 5 October - Bob Geldof, singer, songwriter and humanitarian.
• 18 December - Noel Treacy, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East.
• 30 December - Gay Mitchell, TD representing Dublin South Central, MEP for Dublin.

Full date unknown

• John Aimers, educator and Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada.
• Darina Allen, chef and television personality.
• Adrian Hardiman, justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.
• Geraldine Kennedy, journalist, politician and first female editor of The Irish Times.
• Joe McKenna, former Limerick hurler and manager.
• Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, singer.

Deaths

January to June

• 9 January - John Aston, cricketer (b.1882).
• 17 January - Alexander Haslett, independent TD (b.1883).
• 18 January - Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer (b.1867).
• 26 January - Thomas Houghton, Anglican Clergyman and editor of the Gospel Magazine (b.1859).
• 18 March - Thomas Foran, trade union official, continuous membership of the Seanad from 1922 to 1948.
• 27 March - James Geoghegan, Fianna Fáil TD, Minister for Justice, Attorney General of Ireland and Justice of the Supreme Court (b.1886).
• 29 March - Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta, Canada (b.1869).
• 10 April - Nora Barnacle, lover, companion, inspiration and wife of James Joyce (b.1884).
• 12 April - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (b.1863).
• 19 May - Frederick Barton Maurice, soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the British Legion in 1920 (b.1871).
• 10 June - George Gavan Duffy, barrister, Sinn Féin MP (b.1882).
• 21 June - Eugene O'Mahoney, museum curator and entomologist (b.1899).

July to December

• 24 July - Paddy Moore, soccer player (b.1910).
• 16 August - Gus Kelly, cricketer (b.1877).
• 17 August - Joseph Warwick Bigger, professor, member of the Dublin University panel in the Seanad from 1944 to 1951.
• 25 August - John J. McGrath, Democrat U.S. Representative from California (b.1872).
• 27 November - George Meldon, cricketer (b.1885).

Full date unknown

• Margot Ruddock, actress, poet and singer (b.1907).