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Events
- January 14 - An Taoiseach Seán Lemass travels to Belfast for an historic meeting with the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill.
- January 21 - Nationalist leader Eddie McAteer visits An Taoiseach Seán Lemass in Dublin.
- February 28 - Roger Casement is honoured with a state funeral in Dublin.
- March 7 - Changes to the Liturgy of the Mass are introduced throughout the country today. Mass is said in the vernacular for the first time.
- March 18 - The Northern Minister for Agriculture, Harry West attends a meeting with his Southern counterpart, Charles Haughey, in Dublin.
- April 18 - The Gaelic Athletic Association Congress in Dublin decides that the ban on foreign games is to stay in place.
- April 21 - James Dillon resigns as leader of Fine Gael. Liam Cosgrave is the new leader.
- May 24 - The first car ferry service between Rosslare, County Wexford and Fishguard, Wales officially opens.
- June 13 - Huge crowds turn out at Drumcliffe Churchyard, County Sligo to honour the poet W.B. Yeats on the centenary of his birth.
- July 8 - An Taoiseach Seán Lemass is conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Law at Trinity College Dublin.
- November 17 - The remains of W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council are removed to a church in Rathfarnham, Dublin.
Arts and literature
Science
- The Young Scientist Exhibition was first held.
Sports
Births
January to June
- 22 January - Denis Walsh, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
- 11 February - Tom Bolger, teacher.
- 22 February - Kieren Fallon, champion flat racing jockey.
- 10 March - Damien Hancock, soccer referee.
- 26 March - John McDonnell, soccer player and manager.
- 14 May - Eoin Colfer, author.
- 28 May - Mary Coughlan, Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for Donegal South West
- 22 June - Enda McCallion, film director.
- June - Jim Cashman, Cork hurler.
July to December
- 30 July - Declan Carr, Tipperary hurler.
- 8 October - Ardal O'Hanlon, comedian, actor and writer.
- 28 October - Robbie Robinson, drummer.
- 31 October - Denis Irwin, soccer player.
- 10 November - Sean Hughes, comedian.
- 20 November - Diarmuid Wilson, Fianna Fáil Senator.
Full date unknown
- Joe Cooney, Galway hurler.
- Mike McCormack, novelist.
- Keith Ridgway, writer.
Deaths
January to June
- 6 February - Tom Jameson, cricketer (b.1892).
- 15 February - Sam Thompson, playwright (b.1916).
- 10 April - James Duhig, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane (b.1873).
- 12 June - Arthur Cox, solicitor, priest, nominated to 8th Seanad by Taoiseach in 1954.
- 22 June - Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (b.1881).
July to December
- 28 August - Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven, peer (b.1887).
- 26 September - James Fitzmaurice, pilot and aviation pioneer (b.1898).
- 12 November - Charles McCausland, cricketer (b.1898).
- 16 November - W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (b.1880).
- 30 December - Henry George Farmer, musicologist (b.1882).
Full date unknown
- Patrick Giles, Fine Gael TD (b.1899).
- Jim Hurley, veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler (b.1902).
- Francis MacManus, novelist (b.1909).
- Seán Óg Murphy, Cork hurler, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator (b.1897).
- Jimmy O'Dea, comedian (b.1899).
