1965 in Ireland

Science and technology

• The Young Scientist Exhibition was held for the first time.

Births

• 18 January – Paudge Behan, actor
• 22 January – Denis Walsh, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
• 22 February – Kieren Fallon, champion flat racing jockey.
• 28 February – Colum McCann, fiction writer.
• 10 March – Damien Hancock, association football referee.
• 17 March – Joe Cooney, Galway hurler.
• 24 March – John Commins, Galway hurler.
• 26 March – John McDonnell, association football player and manager.
• 30 April – Eddie McGoldrick, association football player born in England of Irish descent.
• 14 May – Eoin Colfer, author.
• 28 May – Mary Coughlan, Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála (TD) for Donegal South-West.
• 22 June – Enda McCallion, film director.
• June – Jim Cashman, Cork hurler.
• 1 July – Teddy McCarthy, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
• 10 July – Dominic Hannigan, politician
• 30 July – Declan Carr, Tipperary hurler.
• 2 October – Keith Ridgway, writer.
• 8 October – Ardal O'Hanlon, comedian, actor and writer.
• 31 October – Denis Irwin, association football player.
• 10 November – Sean Hughes, comedian born in England of Irish parents (died 2017).
• 20 November – Diarmuid Wilson, Fianna Fáil party senator.
• 25 November – David Kelly, association footballer born in England of Irish descent.

Full date unknown

• Mike McCormack, novelist.
• Gary Coyle, artist.

Deaths

• 7 January – Jimmy O'Dea, comedian (born 1899).
• 6 February – Tom Jameson, cricketer (born 1892).
• 10 February – 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 – Patrick Giles, Fine Gael TD (born 1899).
• 10 April – James Duhig, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane (born 1873).
• 12 June – Arthur Cox, solicitor, priest, nominated to 8th Seanad by the Taoiseach in 1954.
• 22 June – Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (born 1881).
• 17 July – Frank Ryan, tenor (born 1900).
• 28 August – Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven, peer (born 1887).
• 11 September – Bethel Solomons, obstetrician and rugby player (born 1885).
• 26 September – James Fitzmaurice, pilot, aviation pioneer (born 1898).
• 12 November – Charles McCausland, cricketer (born 1898).
• 16 November – W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (born 1880).
• 27 November – Francis MacManus, novelist (born 1909).
• 30 December – Henry George Farmer, musicologist (born 1882).

See also

• 1965 in Irish television

References