1967 in Ireland
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See also: 1966 in Ireland, other events of 1967, 1968 in Ireland and the list of years in Ireland.
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[edit] Events
- January 9 - Demonstrations by the National Farmers' Association cause major chaos as farm machinery blocks many roads.
- April 4 - The Fianna Fáil Party makes a presentation to former Taoiseach Seán Lemass.
- April 18 - The Minister for Education, Donagh O'Malley, reveals his plan for a single multi-denominational University of Dublin. This would combine University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.
- July 1 - Jacqueline Kennedy goes racing at the Curragh with An Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Mrs. Máirín Lynch.
- August 4 - Senator Margaret M. Pearse, sister of Pádraig Pearse and Willie Pearse, the executed 1916 leaders, is 89 today. She is greeted by President de Valera.
- September 4 - Ireland's free post-primary school transport scheme begins. CIÉ brings 38,000 students to 350 schools.
- November 4 - An Taoiseach Jack Lynch returns to Dublin following talks on the European Community with General Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
- December 2 - The poet Patrick Kavanagh is buried in his native Inniskeen, County Monaghan.
- December 4 - The first independent computer in this country open at Shannon Airport.
- December 29 - The Minister for Labour, Dr. Patrick Hillery, announces details of a new redundancy payments scheme which takes effect from New Year's Day.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sports
- November 19 - Jimmy O'Connor scores the world's fastest ever hat-trick in a first-class match when he grabbed three goals in 2 minutes and 13 seconds (some sources dispute this, and claim the actual time was 2 minutes and 14 seconds) for Shelbourne against Bohemians in a League of Ireland match at Dalymount Park.
[edit] Births
- 22 January - Eleanor McEvoy, singer songwriter.
- 1 March - Justin Benson, cricketer.
- 17 March - Angus Dunlop, cricketer.
- 16 May - Barry Andrews, Fianna Fáil politician, TD for Dún Laoghaire.
- 26 May - Philip Treacy, hat designer.
- 15 October - Lawrence Roche, road racing cyclist.
- Susan McKeown, folk singer.
[edit] Deaths
- 1 January - Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedhael and later Fine Gael (b.1893).
- 28 January - Helena Moloney, fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and was first woman president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (b.1884).
- 1 April - Jane Wyse Power, member of the Seanad from 1922 to 1936.
- 22 April - Walter Macken, novelist, dramatist and actor (b.1915).
- 14 September - Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, businessman, politician and philanthropist, Chancellor University of Dublin (b.1874).
- 18 December - James Everett, Irish Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for Battle of Baltinglass, 44 years service as a TD (b.1894).
- 18 December - Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer (b.1895).
- Mary Devenport O'Neill, poet and dramatist (b.1879).
