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*19 April - [[Hugh O'Conor]], actor. |
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*25 April - [[Dara Ó Cinnéide]], [[Kerry GAA|Kerry]] Gaelic footballer. |
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*9 July - [[Philip Smith (GAA footballer)|Philip Smith]], [[Clare GAA|Clare]] Gaelic footballer. |
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*6 August - [[Willie Boland]], soccer player. |
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*28 August - [[Gareth Farrelly]], soccer player. |
*28 August - [[Gareth Farrelly]], soccer player. |
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See also: | 1975 in Northern Ireland Other events of 1975 List of years in Ireland |
Events from the year 1975 in Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
- 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.
Arts and literature
- 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.
Sport
Golf
- Carroll's Irish Open is won by Christy O'Connor Jnr (Ireland).
Births
- 1 January - Lorraine Pilkington, actress.
- 24 January - Marie McMahon, long-distance runner
- 12 February - Andrew Myler, soccer player.
- 1 March - Tara Blaise, singer.
- 17 April - Mark Foley, Limerick hurler.
- 19 April - Hugh O'Conor, actor.
- 25 April - Dara Ó Cinnéide, Kerry Gaelic footballer.
- 6 August - Willie Boland, soccer player.
- 28 August - Gareth Farrelly, soccer player.
- 15 September - Owen Butler, cricketer.
- 2 October - Girvan Dempsey, rugby player.
- 7 November - Ollie Moran, Limerick hurler.
- 16 December - Graham Lee, National Hunt jockey.
- 18 December - David O'Doherty, comedian.
- 20 December - Graham Hopkins, drummer.
Full date unknown
- Allan Cavanagh, cartoonist and caricaturist.
- David Kitt, musician.
- Adrian James Martyn, historical writer.
- Pat Mulcahy, Cork hurler.
- Paul Murray, novelist.
- Sarah O'Flaherty, television presenter.
Deaths
January to June
- 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).
July to December
- 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).
References
- ^ 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.