1951 in Ireland
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See also: 1950 in Ireland, other events of 1951, 1952 in Ireland and the list of years in Ireland.
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[edit] Events
- February 2 - Éamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
- April 11 - Minister for Health Dr. Noel Browne resigns and his Mother and Child Scheme is overturned.
- April 19 - The Northern Ireland Attorney-General, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, says that Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth.
- May 24 - Gardaí exchange shots with two men after they throw a bomb at the British Embassy in Dublin.
- June 8 - Jack Doyle defeats America's 'Beer Baron' Two-Ton Tony Gelanto at Tolka Park.
- June 10 - Justice George Gavan Duffy, one of the signatories of the Treaty in 1921, dies in Dublin.
- June 13 - Éamon de Valera becomes Taoiseach with one of the smallest majorities on record 74-69.
- July 1 - An Taoiseach Éamon de Valera pays his first visit to Derry in 25 years.
- July 18 - The Abbey Theatre in Dublin is burnt to the ground.
- November 15 - The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded jointly to Professor Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin and Sir John Cockcroft.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
- Winners: Cork Athletic
- Winners: Transport 1 - 1, 1 - 0 Shelbourne.
[edit] Births
- 4 January - Paddy Roche, soccer player.
- 27 January - Brian Downey, drummer.
- 4 February - Patrick Bergin, actor.
- 14 February - Alan Shatter, Fine Gael TD for Dublin South.
- 16 March - John Egan, former Dublin GAA County Chairman (d.2007).
- 25 March - Gerard Murphy, Fine Gael TD representing Cork North West.
- 4 April - Alan Hughes, cricketer.
- 24 April - Enda Kenny, current leader of Fine Gael.
- 1 May - Michael McDowell, founding member of Progressive Democrats, former TD, Cabinet Minister, and Attorney-General.
- 21 May - Ray O'Brien, soccer player.
- 27 June - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland.
- July - Anne Colley, former Progressive Democrats politician.
- 30 August - Dana Rosemary Scallon, Eurovision Song Contest winner and former MEP.
- 12 September - Bertie Ahern, current Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil.
- 5 October - Bob Geldof, singer, songwriter and humanitarian.
- 30 December - Gay Mitchell, Teachta Dála representing Dublin South Central, Member of the European Parliament for Dublin.
- John Aimers, educator and Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada.
- Adrian Hardiman, justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.
- Geraldine Kennedy, journalist, politician and first female editor of The Irish Times.
[edit] Deaths
- 9 January - John Aston, cricketer (b.1882).
- 18 January - Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer (b.1867).
- 18 March - Thomas Foran, trade union official, continuous membership of the Seanad from 1922 to 1948.
- 27 March - James Geoghegan, Fianna Fáil TD, Minister for Justice, Attorney General of Ireland and Justice of the Supreme Court (b.1886).
- 12 April - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (b.1863).
- 19 May - Frederick Barton Maurice, soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the British Legion in 1920 (b.1871).
- 10 June - George Gavan Duffy, barrister, Sinn Féin MP (b.1882).
- 21 June - Eugene O'Mahoney, museum curator and entomologist (b.1899).
- 24 July - Paddy Moore, soccer player (b.1910).
- 16 August - Gus Kelly, cricketer (b.1877).
- 17 August - Joseph Warwick Bigger, professor, member of the Dublin University panel in the Seanad from 1944 to 1951.
- 27 November - George Meldon, cricketer (b.1885).
- Margot Ruddock, actress, poet and singer (b.1907).
