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Events

• January 18 - The European Court of Human Rights finds Britain guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment of republican internees in Northern Ireland.
• January 19 - The Fianna Fáil government dismisses the Garda Commissioner Edmund Garvey. No explanation is given.
• January 21 - John Giles resigns as manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team.
• March 23 - The state funeral of former President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh takes place in Sneem, County Kerry.
• March 31 - 6,000 people march through Dublin to the Wood Quay site to protest the building of civic offices on the Viking site.
• June 1 - David Cooke of the Alliance Party becomes the first non-unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast.
• August 19 - Over 5,000 people take part in a nuclear rally against a nuclear power station at Carnsore Point, County Wexford.
• September 1 - Dublin Institute of Technology is created on an ad-hoc basis by the City of Dublin VEC.
• November 2 - Ireland's second national television channel, RTÉ 2, opens with a live broadcast from the Cork Opera House.

Arts and literature

• Iris Murdoch is awarded the Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, The Sea.

Sport

Athletics

• March 25 - John Treacy wins the world cross-country championship in Glasgow.

Golf

• Carroll's Irish Open is won by Ken Brown (Scotland).

Births

January to June

• 12 January - David Worrell, soccer player.
• 19 January - Simon Webb, soccer player.
• 28 January - Dave Mulcahy, soccer player.
• 30 January - John Doyle, Kildare Gaelic footballer.
• 21 February - Damien English, Fine Gael TD for Meath West.
• 23 February - Jason Byrne, soccer player.
• 9 March - Derek O'Connor, soccer player.
• 2 April - John Hoyne, Kilkenny hurler.
• 4 April - Alan Mahon, soccer player.
• 5 April - Stephen Murphy, soccer player.
• 19 April - Geordan Murphy, International rugby player.
• 29 April - David O'Loughlin, cyclist.
• 14 June - Alan Murphy, soccer player.
• 21 June - Wayne Sherlock, Cork hurler.
• 25 June - Kieran Kelly, jump jockey killed in a racing accident (d.2003).

July to September

• 4 July - Derek Lyng, Kilkenny hurler.
• 18 July - Shane Horgan, International rugby player.
• 27 July - Brian Barry-Murphy, soccer player.
• July - Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Cork hurler.
• 7 August - Alan Mahon, soccer player.
• 8 August - Alan Maybury, soccer player.
• 21 August - Alan Lee, soccer player.
• 28 August - Barry Ryan, soccer player.
• 29 August - Darren O'Keeffe, soccer player.
• 27 September - John Paul Phelan, Fine Gael Senator.

October to December

• 1 October - Barry Conlon, soccer player.
• 2 October - Eddie Brennan, Kilkenny hurler.
• 5 October - Shane Ryan, Gaelic footballer.
• 9 October - Nicky Byrne, entertainer, member Westlife.
• 17 October - Jerry Flannery, international rugby player.
• 25 October - Chris Keane, rugby player.
• 9 November - Martin Comerford, Kilkenny hurler.
• 15 December - Edele Barrett, singer and songwriter.
• 15 December - Keavy Lynch, singer and songwriter.
• 22 December - Eugene Cloonan, Galway hurler.

Full date unknown

• Caoimhe Butterly, human rights activist.
• Julie Feeney, singer songwriter.
• Mike FitzGerald, Limerick hurler.
• John Miskella, Cork Gaelic footballer.
• Richie Mullally, Kilkenny hurler.
• Nicholas Murphy, Cork Gaelic footballer.
• Mike O'Brien, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

• 23 January Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil TD and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (b.1902).
• 4 March - Emmet Dalton, revolutionary.
• 6 March - Micheál MacLiammóir, actor and dramatist (b.1899).
• 21 March - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-General, Chief Justice of Ireland and fifth President of Ireland (d.1911).
• 5 July - Mary Swanzy, painter.
• 12 September - Wilfred Hutton, cricketer (b.1901).
• October - Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (b.1897).
• 5 November - Denis O'Dea, actor (b.1905).
• 13 December - Jack Doyle, boxer, actor and singer (b.1913).

Full date unknown

• Gabriel Hayes, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (b.1909).
• Peter Kerley, radiologist (b.1900).