1962 in Ireland

Events in the year 1962 in Ireland.

Incumbents

• President: Éamon de Valera
• Taoiseach: Seán Lemass (FF)
• Tánaiste: Seán MacEntee (FF)
• Minister for Finance: James Ryan (FF)
• Chief Justice: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
• Dáil: 17th
• Seanad: 10th

Events

• 26 February – The Irish Republican Army officially called off its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland.
• 13 March – Irish artists left Dublin Airport for the Congo to entertain United Nations troops there.
• 17 March – President Éamon de Valera and his wife Sinéad had a private audience with Pope John XXIII in Rome.
• 5 April – A final train ran on the west Cork railway.
• 8 May – Irish troops left for a peace-keeping mission in the Congo.
• 6 July – Gay Byrne presented the first edition of The Late Late Show television programme on Telefís Éireann. He went on to present the show for 37 years.
• 13 July – Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant arrived in Dublin. He paid tribute to Irish soldiers who fought in the Congo.
• 21 August – Former United States President Dwight Eisenhower arrived in Belfast on a four-day visit to Ireland.
• 13 November – Aer Lingus air hostesses received new uniforms. The colours were fern-green and St. Patrick's blue.

Arts and literature

• 30 June – The Theatre Royal, Dublin closed.
• 4 December – The first Jacob's broadcasting awards ceremony took place in Dublin.
• Irish folk music group the Abbey Tavern Singers was formed in Howth.
• Irish folk music band The Chieftains was formed by Paddy Moloney in Dublin.
• Irish folk music band The Dubliners was formed at O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin.
• Eavan Boland published 23 Poems while an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin.
• Ewart Milne's poetry A Garland for the Green was published.
• Eoghan Ó Tuairisc published his Irish language prose epic L'Attaque in Dublin.
• Cecil Woodham-Smith published her history The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845–1849.

Sports

Association football

• Shelbourne FC won the League of Ireland championship for the seventh time with a 1–0 play-off victory over Cork Celtic thanks to a Ben Hannigan goal.

Births

• 1 January – Jamie O'Neill, author.
• 9 January – Ray Houghton, association football player, in Scotland to an Irish father.
• 2 March – Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, children's author and illustrator.
• 6 April – Anne Cassin, RTE newsreader.
• 13 April – Harry Kenny, association football player.
• 7 May – Paul Kimmage, cyclist and sports journalist.
• 9 June – Bobby Browne, association football player.
• 15 June – Martin Earley, road bicycle racer.
• 26 June – Cyprian Brady, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central.
• 4 July – Martin Hayes, fiddle player.
• 11 July – Pauline McLynn, actress and writer.
• 14 July – Eamon Delaney, author and journalist.
• 19 July – Caitríona 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 – Tony Cascarino, association football player.
• 11 October
• Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author.
• Eddie Hobbs, financial adviser and television presenter.
• 2 December – Kevin Brady, association football player.
• Full date unknown – Tom Spillane, Kerry Gaelic footballer.

Deaths

• 1 February – Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal party member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach (chairperson) of the Seanad (born 1867).
• 13 March – Anne Acheson, sculptor (born 1882).
• 14 March – Eileen Costello, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad.
• 25 June – Robert Gwynn, cricketer (born 1877).
• 4 July – William Harman, cricketer (born 1869).
• 16 July – Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (born 1893).
• 24 July – Margaret Buckley, president of Sinn Féin party from 1937 to 1950 (born 1879).
• 26 October – Emily Anderson, British Foreign Office cryptanalyst, scholar of German and musicologist, in London (born 1891).

See also

• 1962 in Irish television

References