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1965 in Northern Ireland
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Contents
1
Events
2
Arts and literature
3
Science
4
Sports
5
Births
5.1
January to June
5.2
July to December
5.3
Full date unknown
6
Deaths
6.1
January to June
6.2
July to December
6.3
Full date unknown
Events
January 14 -
Taoiseach
Seán Lemass
travels to
Belfast
for an historic meeting with the
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
Terence O'Neill
.
January 21 - Nationalist leader
Eddie McAteer
visits
Taoiseach
Seán Lemass
in
Dublin
.
February 28 -
Roger Casement
is honoured with a state funeral in
Dublin
.
March 7 - Changes to the Liturgy of the Mass are introduced throughout the country today. Mass is said in the vernacular for the first time.
March 18 - The Northern Minister for Agriculture,
Harry West
attends a meeting with his Southern counterpart,
Charles Haughey
, in
Dublin
.
April 18 - The
Gaelic Athletic Association
Congress in
Dublin
decides that the ban on foreign games is to stay in place.
April 21 -
James Dillon
resigns as leader of
Fine Gael
.
Liam Cosgrave
is the new leader.
May 24 - The first car ferry service between
Rosslare
,
County Wexford
and
Fishguard
,
Wales
officially opens.
June 13 - Huge crowds turn out at Drumcliffe Churchyard,
County Sligo
to honour the poet
W.B. Yeats
on the centenary of his birth.
July 8 -
Taoiseach
Seán Lemass
is conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Law at
Trinity College Dublin
.
November 17 - The remains of
W. T. Cosgrave
, first
President of the Executive Council
are removed to a church in Rathfarnham,
Dublin
.
Arts and literature
Science
The
Young Scientist Exhibition
was first held.
Sports
Births
January to June
22 January -
Denis Walsh
,
Cork
Gaelic footballer and hurler.
11 February - Tom Bolger, teacher.
22 February -
Kieren Fallon
, champion flat racing jockey.
10 March -
Damien Hancock
, soccer referee.
26 March -
John McDonnell
, soccer player and manager.
14 May -
Eoin Colfer
, author.
28 May -
Mary Coughlan
,
Tánaiste
and
Fianna Fáil
Teachta Dála
for
Donegal South West
22 June -
Enda McCallion
, film director.
June -
Jim Cashman
,
Cork
hurler.
July to December
30 July -
Declan Carr
,
Tipperary
hurler.
8 October -
Ardal O'Hanlon
, comedian, actor and writer.
28 October -
Robbie Robinson
, drummer.
31 October -
Denis Irwin
, soccer player.
10 November -
Sean Hughes
, comedian.
20 November -
Diarmuid Wilson
,
Fianna Fáil
Senator
.
Full date unknown
Joe Cooney
,
Galway
hurler.
Mike McCormack
, novelist.
Keith Ridgway
, writer.
Deaths
January to June
6 February -
Tom Jameson
, cricketer (b.
1892
).
15 February -
Sam Thompson
, playwright (b.
1916
).
10 April -
James Duhig
,
Archbishop
of
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane
(b.
1873
).
12 June - Arthur Cox, solicitor, priest, nominated to
8th Seanad
by
Taoiseach
in 1954.
22 June -
Piaras Béaslaí
, member of the
Irish Republican Brotherhood
, member of
Dáil Éireann
, author, playwright, biographer and translator (b.
1881
).
July to December
28 August -
Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven
, peer (b.
1887
).
26 September -
James Fitzmaurice
, pilot and aviation pioneer (b.
1898
).
12 November -
Charles McCausland
, cricketer (b.
1898
).
16 November -
W. T. Cosgrave
, first
President of the Executive Council
of the
Irish Free State
(b.
1880
).
30 December -
Henry George Farmer
, musicologist (b.
1882
).
Full date unknown
Patrick Giles
,
Fine Gael
TD
(b.
1899
).
Jim Hurley
, veteran of the
Irish War of Independence
,
Cork
Gaelic footballer and hurler (b.
1902
).
Francis MacManus
, novelist (b.
1909
).
Seán Óg Murphy
,
Cork
hurler,
Gaelic Athletic Association
administrator (b.
1897
).
Jimmy O'Dea
, comedian (b.
1899
).
Frank Ryan
, tenor (b.
1900
).
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