Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 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

• January 9 - Peig Sayers travels to Dublin for the first time in 81 years.
• January 10 - An Aer Lingus aircraft crashes in Wales killing twenty passengers and the crew. It is the airline's first fatal crash in its fifteen-year history.
• April 30 - The Adoption Bill makes provision for the adoption of orphans and children aged between six months and seven years born outside wedlock.
• May 11 - In Washington, the House Foreign affairs Committee explains that Ireland's exclusion from Marshall Aid is due to its wartime neutrality.
• May 30 - The Minister for Education, Seán Moylan, announces longer summer holidays for national school children.
• November 24 - The Minister for Defence, Oscar Traynor, presents framed copies of the Proclamation to three printers who had been involved in the production of the original work.
• December 29 - Éamon de Valera arrives back in Dublin after spending four months at an eye clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

[edit] Arts and literature

Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot was published in French.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: St Patrick's Athletic

• FAI Cup

Winners: Dundalk 1 - 1, 3 - 0 Cork Athletic.

[edit] Golf

• Irish Open - no tournament held.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 30 January - Anne Doyle, newsreader
• 10 February - Martin Ferris, Provisional IRA member, Sinn Féin TD for Kerry North
• 25 February - Seánie O'Leary, Cork hurler
• 3 March - Dermot Morgan, actor and comedian (d. 1998)
• 18 March - Pat Eddery, flat racing jockey
• 29 March - John Gilligan, drug smuggler implicated in the murder of Veronica Guerin
• 14 April - Mickey O'Sullivan, Kerry Gaelic footballer, Limerick manager
• 28 April - Gerald Barry, composer
• May 12 — Pat Hooper, long-distance runner
• 27 June - Ger Power, Kerry Gaelic footballer
• June - Tony Killeen, Fianna Fáil TD for Clare, Minister of State

[edit] July to December

• 11 July - Tom Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South, Government Chief Whip.
• 4 August - Moya Brennan, singer.
• 5 August - Louis Walsh, manager in the music industry, and judge on The X Factor.
• 7 August - Eamonn Darcy, golfer.
• 9 August - Dinny Allen, Cork Gaelic footballer.
• 25 August - Martin Duffy, filmmaker and writer.
• 11 September - Jimmy Deenihan, Fine Gael TD for Kerry North.
• 27 September - Liam Aylward, former Fianna Fáil TD, MEP representing East.
• 7 October - Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, folk and traditional musician (d.2006).
• 22 October - Mick Fairclough, former soccer player.
• 1 November - Willie O'Dea, barrister-at-law, lecturer,Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Limerick East, Cabinet Minister.
• 21 November - Eamonn Coghlan, four-time Olympian and world championship winning runner.
• 28 November - Pat Cox, former Progressive Democrats TD, MEP representing Munster, 5th President of the directly elected European Parliament and television presenter.

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• Patrick Buckley, former priest.
• Ger Canning, Gaelic Athletic Association hurling and football commentator.
• Tim Crowley, Cork hurler.
• Felim Egan, painter.
• John Ellis, former Fianna Fáil TD, Senator.
• John MacKenna, playwright and novelist.
• Michael Mulcahy, painter.
• Brian Murphy, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
• Martin O'Doherty, Cork hurler.
• Maurice Scully, poet and editor.
• Peter Sheridan, playwright, screenwriter and director.
• Noel Synnott, soccer player and manager.

[edit] Deaths

• 6 February - George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (b. 1895)
• 18 February - Ernest Henry Alton, university professor, represented Dublin University in Dáil from 1921 to 1927, represented Dublin University in Seanad from 1938 to 1943.
• 27 February - Helena Concannon, Fianna Fáil politician and historian (b.1878).
• 21 March - James Perry Goodbody, nominated to the 1922 Seanad and the 1925 Seanad by the President of the Executive Council.
• 9 May - P. J. Ruttledge, Sinn Féin, then Fianna Fáil, TD and Cabinet Minister (b.1892).
• 23 October - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (b.1857).
• 2 November - Maire O'Neill, actress (b.1885).

[edit] Full date unknown

• J. J. O'Reilly, Cavan Gaelic footballer (b.1919)
• Louisa Watson Small Peat, writer and lecturer (b.1883)