Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
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- Winners: Cork United
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- Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1 - 0 Bohemians.
Golf
Births
January to March
April to June
- 2 April - Batt O'Keeffe, Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North West and Minister of State.
- 8 April - Diarmuid Martin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland.
- 18 April - Margaret Hassan, aid worker in Iraq, kidnapped and murdered by Iraqi insurgents (d.2004).
- 20 April - Alan Dukes, former leader of Fine Gael and TD, Director General of the Institute of European Affairs.
- 26 April - Séamus Kirk, Fianna Fáil TD for Louth.
- 27 April - Dinny McGinley, Fine Gael TD for Donegal South West.
- 4 May - Jim Higgins, former Fine Gael TD, Senator and MEP.
- 7 May - Christy Moore, folk singer.
- 1 June - Jarlath McDonagh, former Fine Gael politician.
- 6 June - Denis Coughlan, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
- 20 June - Denis Brennan, Bishop of Ferns (2006 - ).
- 30 June - Sean Scully, painter.
- June - Nora Owen, former Fine Gael TD and Minister for Justice.
July to December
- 1 July - Jack Wall, Labour Party (Ireland) TD for Kildare South.
- 11 July - Patrick Joseph McGrath, second Roman Catholic Bishop of San Jose in California.
- July - John Dardis, former Progressive Democrats Senator.
- 3 August - Eamon Dunphy, former footballer, commentator and broadcaster.
- 12 September - Maria Aitken, actress, writer and director.
- 13 September - Niall FitzGerald, businessman.
- 15 September - Donie Cassidy, Fianna Fáil TD representing Longford-Westmeath, businessman.
- 20 September - Eamonn Walsh, former Irish Labour Party TD, local councillor.
- September - Gerald McCarthy, Cork hurling manager and former player.
- 19 November - Christie Hennessy, folk singer songwriter (d.2007).
- 8 December - John Banville, novelist.
- 17 December - John Neill, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, Bishop of Glendalough, Primate of Ireland, and Metropolitan.
- 24 December - Noel Davern, Fianna Fáil TD representing Tipperary South, Cabinet Minister, Member of the European Parliament.
Full date unknown
- Richie Bennis, Limerick hurling manager.
- Niamh Bhreathnach, senior Labour Party politician, formerly Minister for Education.
- Éamonn Cregan, former Limerick Gaelic footballer and hurler, manager.
- Susan Denham, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland.
- Alexis FitzGerald, Jnr, former Fine Gael TD and Senator.
- Justin McCarthy, former Cork hurler, Waterford hurling manager.
- Eddie O'Brien, former Cork hurler.
- Bernard O'Donoghue, poet and academic.
- Philip Pettit, philosopher and political theorist.
- Kieran Purcell, former Kilkenny hurler.
- Pad Joe Whelahan, Offaly hurler, manager.
Deaths
- 30 January - Patrick Belton, Fianna Fáil and Cumann na nGaedheal TD, President of the anti-communist Irish Christian Front (b.1885).
- 4 April - Henry Seymour Guinness, served as an Independent member of the Seanad from 1922.
- 24 July - Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of the assassinated Michael Collins (b.1892).
- 3 October - Dermod O'Brien, painter (b.1865).
- 13 October - Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (b.1861).
- 15 October - Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (b.1867).
- 24 October - Frederick Field, Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord (b.1871).
- 6 December - Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier of Tasmania in 1939 (b.1870).
- 20 December - John M. Lyle, architect in Canada (b.1872).
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