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9 January - Peig Sayers travels to Dublin for the first time in her 81 years.
10 January - An Aer Lingus Douglas DC-3 aircraft on a London–Dublin flight crashes in Wales due to vertical draft in the mountains of Snowdonia, killing twenty passengers and the three crew. It is the airline's first fatal crash in its fifteen-year history.^[1]^[2]
30 April - The Adoption Bill makes provision for the adoption of orphans and children aged between six months and seven years born outside wedlock.
11 May - In Washington, the House Foreign affairs Committee explains that Ireland's exclusion from Marshall Aid is due to its wartime neutrality.
30 May - The Minister for Education, Seán Moylan, announces longer summer holidays for national school children.
24 November - 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.
29 December - Éamon de Valera arrives back in Dublin after spending four months at an eye clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

12 July - Première of the romantic comedy-drama film The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, set in 1930s Ireland and with much location filming around Cong, County Mayo.
17 October - Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot is published in French as En attendant Godot by Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris.
The novelist Elizabeth Bowen settles in her ancestral home, Bowen's Court at Farahy, near Kildorrery, County Cork.
Austin Clarke publishes his third and last novel The Sun Dances at Easter: a romance; like the first two, it is prohibited in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board.
Louis le Brocquy's 1951 painting A Family sparks controversy when a group of art patrons offer to present it to the Dublin Municipal Gallery and it is rejected by the Art Advisory Committee on the grounds of incompetence.
Daniel O'Neill paints Birth.
Seán Ó Ríordáin publishes his first book of poetry Eireaball Spideoige.^[3]

Winners: St Patrick's Athletic

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

8 January - Peter Sheridan, playwright/director/author
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 (died 1998)
18 March - Pat Eddery, flat racing jockey (died 2015)
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
12 May — Pat Hooper, long-distance runner
27 June - Ger Power, Kerry Gaelic footballer
June - Tony Killeen, Fianna Fáil TD for Clare, Minister of State

July - Anne Anderson, 17th Ambassador of Ireland to the United States, and first woman to hold the post.
11 July - Tom Kitt, former 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 (died 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.

6 February - George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (born 1895)
18 February - Ernest 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 (born 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 (born 1892).
23 October - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (born 1857).
2 November - Maire O'Neill, actress (born 1885).

↑ Yates, A. H. (2 January 1953). "Airflow over Mountains". Flight. 63 (2293): 2–3. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
↑ White, Kevin (26 January 2012). "60th anniversary of Aer Lingus disaster". Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
↑ Ó Muirí, Pól (14 January 2012). "Art in the form of Artefact". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2012-10-11.

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