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Events from the year 1975 in Ireland.

January–June - Ireland holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time.
7 January - Sinéad Bean de Valera dies in Dublin aged 96.
30 January - Charles Haughey is brought back onto the Fianna Fáil front bench.
14 March - Pierre Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, pays a brief visit to Ireland and bilateral talks are held at Dublin Castle.^[1]^[2]
17 April - Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, and Our Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort, become recognised colleges of the National University of Ireland.
18 June - Danny O'Hare is made acting director of the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin; a day later, the governing body first meets.
31 July - Miami Showband killings: Three members of The Miami Showband, together with two paramilitaries, are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force ambush in County Down as they return home to Dublin from playing at a dance in Banbridge.
29 August - Former revolutionary, Taoiseach, and President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera dies in Dublin aged 92. The government announces a day of mourning.
3 October - Dutch industrialist and Limerick factory owner Tiede Herrema is kidnapped.
12 October - Oliver Plunkett, the 17th-century Archbishop of Armagh, is canonised by Pope Paul VI in Rome.
21 October - Tiede Herrema is located with his kidnappers in Monasterevin, County Kildare.
18 November - The Tiede Herrema kidnap siege ends.
28 December - George Best plays a League of Ireland match for Cork Celtic against Drogheda.

14 May - Cork-born writer Patrick Galvin's We Do It For Love, a satire on The Troubles, opens at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
7 October - Tom Murphy's play The Sanctuary Lamp opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.^[3]
The Druid theatre company is founded in Galway by Garry Hynes, Mick Lally and Marie Mullen.
Publications:
- Eavan Boland's collection of poems The War Horse.
- Paul Durcan's collection of poems O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor.
- John McGahern's novel The Leavetaking.
- John Ryan's memoir Remembering How We Stood.

7 January - Sinéad de Valera, writer and wife of third President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera (born 1878).
23 February - Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (born 1889).
27 February - John Vincent Holland, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Guillemont, France (born 1889).
21 April - James Kempster, cricketer (born 1892).
23 April - Michael Carty, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1916).
28 April - Tom Dreaper, horse trainer.
29 April - Arthur Blair-White, cricketer (born 1891).
10 May - Michael Tierney, Cumann na nGaedheal TD, Fine Gael member of Seanad Éireann and President of University College Dublin (born 1894).
27 May - William Robert Fitzgerald Collis, physician and writer (born 1900).
24 June - Frank MacDermot, barrister, soldier, banker and politician (born 1886).

31 July - Dan "Sandow" O'Donovan, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (b. c1895).
9 August - Maurice Gorham, journalist and broadcasting executive (born 1902).
10 August - Robert Barton, Sinn Féin MP, Cabinet Minister and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (born 1881).
29 August - Éamon de Valera, former Taoiseach and President (born 1882).
2 October - Seamus Murphy, sculptor (born 1907).
25 October - Padraig Marrinan, artist (born 1906).
26 October - William Teeling, author, traveller and UK politician (born 1903).
25 November - Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (born 1895).
14 December - George Harman, cricketer and rugby player (born 1874).

^ Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau arrives in Dublin Irish Photo Archive, 1975-03-14.
^ 1975 - Pierre Trudeau visits Dublin Irish Photo Archive, 1975-03-14.
^ "Playography Ireland". Dublin: Irish Theatre Institute. Retrieved 8 April 2015.

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 *19 April - [[Hugh O'Conor]], actor.
 *25 April - [[Dara Ó Cinnéide]], [[Kerry GAA|Kerry]] Gaelic footballer.
-*9 July - [[Philip Smith (GAA footballer)|Philip Smith]], [[Clare GAA|Clare]] Gaelic footballer.
 *6 August - [[Willie Boland]], soccer player.
 *28 August - [[Gareth Farrelly]], soccer player.