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Events

• January 1 - Galway City begins celebrations marking its mayoral status granted by King Richard III in 1484.
• January 10 - Seán MacEntee, founder member of Fianna Fáil and former Tánaiste, dies aged 94. He was the last surviving member of the First Dáil.
• January 30 - Luke Kelly of the Dubliners dies aged 43.
• January 31 - Ann Lovett, aged 15, dies after giving birth to a baby boy in a grotto in Granard, County Longford.
• March 14 - Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams is shot and wounded in Belfast.
• May 2 - The New Ireland Forum publishes its report presenting three possibilities for discussion: a unitary Irish state, a federal/confederal state and joint sovereignty.
• May 22 - The village of Ballyporeen, County Tipperary prepares for the visit of US President Ronald Reagan.
• June 3 - 10,000 people take part in an anti-Reagan march in Dublin.
• June 4 - President Reagan addresses a joint session of the houses of the Oireachtas.
• June 18 - European Parliament elections are held in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
• July 14 - Columban missionary Fr Niall O'Brien, who was imprisoned in the Philippines, is released.
• July 17 - Some workers in Dunnes Stores, Henry Street, Dublin refuse to handle South African produce as a protest against apartheid.
• July 23 - The DART rail service between Howth and Bray is introduced.
• September 28 - The Dublin telephone system collapsed due to the network suffering overload as a result of a phone in competition on one of the illegal radio stations.
• October 1 - The University of Ulster is presented with a Royal Charter by Elizabeth II.
• October 5 - In Dublin women workers in Dunnes Stores, who have been on strike for the past 11 weeks in support of a dispute over the handling of South African fruit, begin a sit-in at the store.
• October 12 - The IRA kills five people in a bomb attack at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the Conservative Party conference.
• 14 November: Irish Shipping Limited placed into liquidation
• November 8 - RTÉ's first newsreader, Charles Mitchel, reads his last news bulletin.
• December 2 - European Economic Community heads of government visit President Hillery and Mrs Hillery at Áras an Uachtaráin.
• December 7 - The most sophisticated naval vessel ever built in this country, the £25 million LÉ Eithne is commissioned at the Haulbowline naval base.

Arts and literature

Sport

Golf

• Carroll's Irish Open is won by Bernhard Langer (West Germany).

Births

January to June

• 2 January - Denis Behan, soccer player.
• 6 January - Stephen Elliott, soccer player.
• 10 January - Alan McCormack, soccer player.
• 10 February - John Fitzgerald, soccer player.
• 22 February - Tommy Bowe, international rugby player.
• 4 March - Kevin O'Brien, cricketer.
• 8 March - Nora Jane Noone, actress.
• 22 March - Aidan Collins, soccer player.
• 4 April - Willie O'Dwyer, Kilkenny hurler.
• 13 May - Mark O'Brien, soccer player.
• 11 June - Andy Lee, boxer.

July to December

• 2 July - Ger O'Brien, soccer player.
• 5 July - Paul Keegan, soccer player.
• 21 August - Conor Kenna, soccer player.
• 16 September - Robbie Clarke, soccer player.
• 2 October - Derek Pender, soccer player.
• 26 October - Martin Burke, actor and voice actor.
• 19 November - Stephen Bradley, soccer player.
• 19 December - Ruaidhri Lennon, artist.
• 31 December - Anthony Flood, soccer player.

Full date unknown

• David Collins, Galway hurler.
• Bryan Cullen, Dublin Gaelic footballer.
• Pamela Fitzgerald, camogie player.
• Kevin Hartnett, Cork hurler.
• Damien Hayes, Galway hurler.
• Stephen Hiney, Dublin hurler.
• Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

January to June

• 1 January - Tarlach Ó Raifeartaigh, educationalist.
• 10 January - Seán MacEntee, Fianna Fáil TD and Tánaiste from 1959 to 1965 (b.1889).
• 24 January - Bernard Cowen, Fianna Fáil TD and Minister of State (b.1932).
• 30 January - Luke Kelly, singer, folk musician and member of the band The Dubliners (b.1940).
• 3 March - Rinty Monaghan, world flyweight boxing championship (b.1920).
• 19 March - Charlie Ware, 83, Waterford hurler.
• 24 March - Fintan Kennedy, former General President of IT&GWU, member of the Seanad from 1969 to 1981.
• 6 April - Jimmy Kennedy, songwriter (b.(1902).
• 26 April - Kathleen Behan, mother of the Behans.
• June - Alec Mackie, soccer player (b.1903).

July to December

• 21 July - Paddy Grace, former Kilkenny hurler).
• 8 August - Denis Johnston, dramatist (b.1901).
• 13 August - Jack Lawrence, cricketer (b.1904).
• 7 September - Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short story writer (b.1896).
• 15 September - Charles Lynch, pianist (b.1906).

Full date unknown

• Theodore William Moody, historian (b.1907).
• William Bedell Stanford, classical scholar and senator (b.1911).