1975 in Ireland

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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.

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.

The Druid theatre company is founded in Galway by Garry Hynes, Mick Lally and Marie Mullen.
Tom Murphy's plays The Sanctuary Lamp and The Vicar of Wakefield are produced.
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).