1978 in Ireland
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See also: 1977 in Ireland, other events of 1978, 1979 in Ireland and the list of years in Ireland.
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[edit] Events
- January 18 - The European Court of Human Rights finds Britain guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment of republican internees in Northern Ireland.
- January 19 - The Fianna Fáil government dismisses the Garda Commissioner Edmund Garvey. No explanation is given.
- January 21 - John Giles resigns as manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team.
- March 23 - The state funeral of former President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh takes place in Sneem, County Kerry.
- March 31 - 6,000 people march through Dublin to the Wood Quay site to protest the building of civic offices on the Viking site.
- June 1 - David Cooke of the Alliance Party becomes the first non-unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast.
- August 19 - Over 5,000 people take part in a nuclear rally against a nuclear power station at Carnsore Point, County Wexford.
- September 1 - Dublin Institute of Technology is created on an ad-hoc basis by the City of Dublin VEC.
- November 2 - Ireland's second national television channel, RTÉ 2, opens with a live broadcast from the Cork Opera House.
[edit] Arts and literature
- Iris Murdoch is awarded the Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, The Sea.
[edit] Sports
- March 25 - John Treacy wins the world cross-country championship in Glasgow.
[edit] Births
- 12 January - David Worrell, soccer player.
- 23 February - Jason Byrne, soccer player.
- 9 March - Derek O'Connor, soccer player.
- 4 April - Alan Mahon, soccer player.
- 5 April - Stephen Murphy, soccer player.
- 19 April - Geordan Murphy, International rugby player.
- 25 June - Kieran Kelly, jump jockey killed in a racing accident (d.2003).
- 18 July - Shane Horgan, International rugby player.
- 27 July - Brian Barry-Murphy, soccer player.
- 7 August - Alan Mahon, soccer player.
- 8 August - Alan Maybury, soccer player.
- 29 August - Darren O'Keeffe, soccer player.
- 5 October - Shane Ryan, Gaelic footballer.
- 9 October - Nicky Byrne, entertainer, member Westlife.
- 15 December - Edele Barrett, singer and songwriter.
- 15 December - Keavy Lynch, singer and songwriter.
- Caoimhe Butterly, human rights activist.
[edit] Deaths
- 23 January Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil TD and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (b.1902).
- 4 March - Emmet Dalton, revolutionary.
- 6 March - Micheál MacLiammóir, actor and dramatist (b.1899).
- 21 March - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-General, Chief Justice of Ireland and fifth President of Ireland (d.1911).
- 5 July - Mary Swanzy, painter.
- 12 September - Wilfred Hutton, cricketer (b.1901).
- 5 November - Denis O'Dea, actor (b.1905).
