1952 in Ireland
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See also: 1951 in Ireland, other events of 1952, 1953 in Ireland and the list of years in Ireland.
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[edit] Events
- January 8 - Peig Sayers travels to Dublin for the first time in 81 years.
- January 10 - An Aer Lingus aircraft crashes in Wales killing twenty passengers and the crew. It is the airline's first fatal crash in its fifteen-year history.
- April 30 - The Adoption Bill makes provision for the adoption of orphans and children aged between six months and seven years born outside wedlock.
- May 11 - In Washington, the House Foreign affairs Committee explains that Ireland's exclusion from Marshall Aid is due to its wartime neutrality.
- May 30 - The Minister for Education, Seán Moylan, announces longer summer holidays for national school children.
- November 24 - 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.
- December 29 - Éamon de Valera arrives back in Dublin after spending four months at an eye clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands.
[edit] Arts and literature
Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot was published in French.
[edit] Sports
[edit] Football
- Winners: St Patrick's Athletic
- Winners: Dundalk 1 - 1, 3 - 0 Cork Athletic.
[edit] Births
- 30 January - Anne Doyle, newsreader.
- 3 March - Dermot Morgan, actor and comedian (d.1998).
- 29 March - John Gilligan, drug smuggler implicated in the murder of Veronica Guerin.
- 9 August - Dinny Allen, Cork Gaelic footballer.
- 25 August - Martin Duffy, filmmaker and writer.
- 27 September - Liam Aylward, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Carlow Kilkenny, Member of the European Parliament representing East.
- 7 October - Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, folk and traditional musician (d.2006).
- 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.
- Felim Egan, painter.
- John MacKenna, playwright and novelist.
- Michael Mulcahy, painter.
- Maurice Scully, poet and editor.
- Peter Sheridan, playwright, screenwriter and director.
- Noel Synnott, soccer player and manager.
[edit] Deaths
- 18 February - Ernest Henry 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 (b.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 (b.1892).
- 23 October - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (b.1857).
- 2 November - Maire O'Neill, actress (b.1885).
