Events in the year 1965 in Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Science and technology
Births
- 18 January â Paudge Behan, actor
- 22 January â Denis Walsh, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
- 22 February â Kieren Fallon, champion flat racing jockey.
- 28 February â Colum McCann, fiction writer.
- 10 March â Damien Hancock, association football referee.
- 17 March â Joe Cooney, Galway hurler.
- 24 March â John Commins, Galway hurler.
- 26 March â John McDonnell, association football player and manager.
- 30 April â Eddie McGoldrick, association football player born in England of Irish descent.
- 14 May â Eoin Colfer, author.
- 28 May â Mary Coughlan, Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála (TD) for Donegal South-West.
- 22 June â Enda McCallion, film director.
- June â Jim Cashman, Cork hurler.
- 1 July â Teddy McCarthy, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
- 10 July â Dominic Hannigan, politician
- 30 July â Declan Carr, Tipperary hurler.
- 2 October â Keith Ridgway, writer.
- 8 October â Ardal O'Hanlon, comedian, actor and writer.
- 31 October â Denis Irwin, association football player.
- 10 November â Sean Hughes, comedian born in England of Irish parents (died 2017).
- 20 November â Diarmuid Wilson, Fianna Fáil party senator.
- 25 November â David Kelly, association footballer born in England of Irish descent.
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 7 January â Jimmy O'Dea, comedian (born 1899).
- 6 February â Tom Jameson, cricketer (born 1892).
- 10 February â Jim Hurley, veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler (born 1902).
- 15 February
- Bill Britton, athlete (born 1890).
- Sam Thompson, playwright (born 1916).
- 13 March â Patrick Giles, Fine Gael TD (born 1899).
- 10 April â James Duhig, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane (born 1873).
- 12 June â Arthur Cox, solicitor, priest, nominated to 8th Seanad by the Taoiseach in 1954.
- 22 June â Piaras BéaslaÃÂ, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil ÃÂireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (born 1881).
- 17 July â Frank Ryan, tenor (born 1900).
- 28 August â Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven, peer (born 1887).
- 11 September â Bethel Solomons, obstetrician and rugby player (born 1885).
- 26 September â James Fitzmaurice, pilot, aviation pioneer (born 1898).
- 12 November â Charles McCausland, cricketer (born 1898).
- 16 November â W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (born 1880).
- 27 November â Francis MacManus, novelist (born 1909).
- 30 December â Henry George Farmer, musicologist (born 1882).
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