Events in the year 1962 in Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Sports
Association football
Births
- 1 January â Jamie O'Neill, author.
- 9 January â Ray Houghton, association football player, in Scotland to an Irish father.
- 2 March â Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, children's author and illustrator.
- 6 April â Anne Cassin, RTE newsreader.
- 13 April â Harry Kenny, association football player.
- 7 May â Paul Kimmage, cyclist and sports journalist.
- 9 June â Bobby Browne, association football player.
- 15 June â Martin Earley, road bicycle racer.
- 26 June â Cyprian Brady, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central.
- 4 July â Martin Hayes, fiddle player.
- 11 July â Pauline McLynn, actress and writer.
- 14 July â Eamon Delaney, author and journalist.
- 19 July â CaitrÃÂona Ruane, Sinn Féin party Member of the Legislative Assembly and Minister for Education in Northern Ireland.
- 14 August
- Dan Boyle, former Green Party TD, senator.
- Peter Eccles, association football player.
- 1 September â Tony Cascarino, association football player.
- 11 October
- Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author.
- Eddie Hobbs, financial adviser and television presenter.
- 2 December â Kevin Brady, association football player.
- Full date unknown â Tom Spillane, Kerry Gaelic footballer.
Deaths
- 1 February â Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal party member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach (chairperson) of the Seanad (born 1867).
- 13 March â Anne Acheson, sculptor (born 1882).
- 14 March â Eileen Costello, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad.
- 25 June â Robert Gwynn, cricketer (born 1877).
- 4 July â William Harman, cricketer (born 1869).
- 16 July â Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (born 1893).
- 24 July â Margaret Buckley, president of Sinn Féin party from 1937 to 1950 (born 1879).
- 26 October â Emily Anderson, British Foreign Office cryptanalyst, scholar of German and musicologist, in London (born 1891).
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