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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Gaelic Games 3.3 Golf 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

• March 12 - 83 people die when a plane carrying rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in Wales.
• May 12 - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
• July 1 -- Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, hitherto British Representative, Republic of Ireland becomes the first British Ambassador to Ireland
• August 11 - At a meeting of the European Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg Irish representatives vote against Winston Churchill's plan for a European Army.
• November 2 - George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic, dies aged 94.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Cork Athletic

• FAI Cup

Winners: Transport 2 - 2, 2 - 2, 3 - 1 Cork Athletic.

[edit] Gaelic Games

• Mayo are All Ireland Gaelic Football Champions.

[edit] Golf

• Irish Open is won by Ossie Pickworth (Australia).

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 25 February - Neil Jordan, director, writer and producer.
• 5 March - Patrick Cockburn, journalist.
• 18 March - Bobby Miller, Gaelic footballer and manager (d.2006).
• 29 March - Miah Dennehy, soccer player.
• 12 May - Gabriel Byrne, actor.
• 22 May - Bill Whelan, composer of Riverdance.
• 25 May - John Horgan, Cork hurler.
• May - Michael P. Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East.
• 1 June - Gemma Craven, actress.
• 23 June - Éamon Ó Cuív, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway West and Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.
• 24 June - Bob Carlos Clarke, photographer (d.2006).
• 29 June - Vere Wynne-Jones, journalist, sports broadcaster.

[edit] July to December

• 12 August - John Carty, Fianna Fáil senator, former TD.
• 23 August - David Molony, lawyer, former Fine Gael TD and Seanad member (d.2002).
• 26 August - Don Baker, singer songwriter.
• 29 August - Dick Spring, former Tánaiste, leader of the Labour Party and Cabinet Minister.
• 5 September - Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, member European Court of Auditors, former Fianna Fáil TD, former Cabinet Minister.
• 6 December - Jan O'Sullivan, Irish Labour Party TD for Limerick East.
• 10 December - Desmond Hogan, writer.

[edit] Full date unknown

• Martin Coleman, Cork hurler.
• Brendan Cummins, Cork hurler.
• Dermot Desmond, businessman and entrepreneur.
• Cyril Farrell, Galway hurling manager.
• Marian Finucane, television presenter.
• Michael Gaughan, Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker who died in Parkhurst Prison (d.1974).
• Pat Hartigan, former Limerick hurler.
• Pádraig Horan, Offaly hurler.
• Paddy Keenan, uilleann pipes player.
• Edmund Lenihan, author, storyteller, lecturer and broadcaster.
• Séamus Looney, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
• Mick Malone, Cork hurler.
• Pat McDonnell, Cork hurler.
• Liam O'Brien, former Kilkenny hurler.
• Patrick Parfrey, nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist in Canada.
• Michael Warren, sculptor.

[edit] Deaths

• 24 March - Robert Johnston, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Elandslaagte, South Africa (b.1872).
• 22 April - John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and founder of the Catholic Legion of Decency (b.1877).
• 10 May - Art O'Connor, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, lawyer and judge (b.1888).
• 11 June - Stephen Lucius Gwynn, journalist, writer, poet and Nationalist politician (b.1864).
• 25 June - Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, writer (b.1904).
• 2 July - George Edward Pugin Meldon, cricketer (b.1875).
• 20 July - Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (b.1880).
• 13 September - Sara Allgood, actress (b.1879).
• 13 October - Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken, barrister (b.1877).
• 2 November - George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (b.1856).
• 9 November - Diarmuid Lynch, member of 1st Dáil representing Cork South East.
• 26 December - James Stephens, novelist and poet (b.1882).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Patrick Keohane, navy officer, member of Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition (b.1879).
• R. A. Stewart Macalister, archaeologist (b.1870).
• James Sleator, painter (b.1889).