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1955 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1955 in Ireland
.
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See also:
1955 in Northern Ireland
Other events of 1955
List of years in Ireland
Incumbents
edit
President
:
Seán T. O'Kelly
Taoiseach
:
John A. Costello
(
FG
)
Tánaiste
:
William Norton
(
Lab
)
Minister for Finance
:
Gerard Sweetman
(
FG
)
Chief Justice
:
Conor Maguire
Dáil
:
15th
Seanad
:
8th
Events
edit
6 January – The
National Farmers' Association
was formed during a meeting of 1,200 people in
Dublin
.
14 January –
Tony O'Reilly
was named in the Irish rugby squad for his first cap in an international against France.
17 March (
Saint Patrick's Day
) – The
Church of Ireland
hallowed
Trim Cathedral
.
4 July –
Denis Larkin
was elected
Lord Mayor of Dublin
defeating 73-year-old
Alfie Byrne
.
21 July – The
BBC
brought its
Divis
television transmitter
into service, its first permanent facility serving Northern Ireland, marking the launch of a
television service for Northern Ireland
; the 35-kilowatt transmissions could also be readily received in much of Ireland.
[1]
September – United States Senator
John F. Kennedy
and his wife
Jacqueline
visited Dublin for two days.
[2]
[3]
29 November – Publication of the Greyhound Industry Bill paved the way for the establishment of the greyhound board,
Bord na gCon
.
14 December – Ireland was admitted to the
United Nations
.
Frederick Boland
was appointed as its first ambassador.
Arts and literature
edit
March – English language publication of Beckett's novel
Molloy
(in Paris and New York).
3 August –
English language
première of
Samuel Beckett
's play
Waiting for Godot
, directed by
Peter Hall
, at the
Arts Theatre
in
London
.
28 October – Irish première of
Waiting for Godot
at the
Pike Theatre
in Dublin.
12 December – The
Cork Opera House
at Emmet Palace was destroyed by fire.
Sigerson Clifford
published his poetry collection,
Ballads of a Bogman
.
Michael Sheehy's modern history
Divided We Stand: A Study In Partition
was published.
Sports
edit
Association football
edit
League of Ireland
Winners:
St Patrick's Athletic
FAI Cup
Winners:
Shamrock Rovers
1–0
Drumcondra
.
Births
edit
15 January –
Paddy Burke
,
Fine Gael
Senator
.
18 January –
Fergus Martin
, artist.
29 January –
Liam Reilly
, rock singer-songwriter (died
2021
).
2 February –
Dermot Ahern
,
Fianna Fáil
TD
for
Louth
and Cabinet Minister.
15 March –
John McGuinness
, Fianna Fáil TD for
Carlow–Kilkenny
.
27 March –
Patrick McCabe
, novelist.
29 March –
Brendan Gleeson
, actor.
1 April
Bobby Aylward
, Fianna Fáil TD for
Carlow–Kilkenny
.
Joe O'Reilly
, Fine Gael
Senator
.
7 April –
Kevin Fennelly
,
Kilkenny
hurler.
14 April –
Simon Crowe
, drummer with
The Boomtown Rats
.
17 April –
Austin Brady
, footballer.
24 April –
Eamon Gilmore
,
Labour Party
TD for
Dún Laoghaire
, leader of the Labour Party.
28 April –
Mae Sexton
,
Progressive Democrats
TD.
16 May –
Páidí Ó Sé
,
Kerry
Gaelic footballer and manager.
23 May
Mary Black
, folk singer.
Luka Bloom
, singer-songwriter and guitarist.
30 May –
Colm Tóibín
, novelist and critic.
20 June –
Aonghus McAnally
, broadcast producer and presenter, actor, guitar player, billiards champion and magician.
25 June -
Paula Meehan
, poet, playwright and teacher.
5 July –
Sebastian Barry
, playwright, novelist and poet.
6 July –
William Wall
, novelist, poet and short story writer.
20 July –
Jem Finer
, musician and composer.
16 August –
James Reilly
, Fine Gael TD for
Dublin North
and
Minister for Health
.
15 September –
Brendan O'Carroll
, comedian.
24 November –
Jerry Holland
,
Munster
rugby union
player and coach (died
2022
).
1 December –
Pat Spillane
,
Kerry
Gaelic footballer.
2 December –
Joachim Kelly
,
Offaly
hurler
.
11 December –
John Fenton
,
Cork
hurler.
29 December –
Pat Loughrey
, Controller of
BBC Northern Ireland
, Director of BBC Nations and Regions and academic.
Full date unknown
John Allen
,
Cork
hurler and manager.
John Callinan
,
Clare
hurler.
Michael Gleeson
,
Tipperary
hurler.
Peter Wyse Jackson
, Director of the
National Botanic Gardens
,
Glasnevin
, Dublin.
Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill
, traditional singer.
Sean Power
, Member of the
States of Jersey
.
Deaths
edit
22 January –
Moira O'Neill
, poet (born in 1864).
February –
John Dulanty
, diplomat (born in 1883).
[4]
12 February –
Thomas J. Moore
, actor (born in 1883).
13 March –
Evie Hone
, painter and stained glass artist (born in 1894).
26 March –
Thomas Farren
, elected to
Seanad Éireann
in 1922 and 1931, member of the
Labour Party
.
4 May –
Michael Colivet
, manager Shannon Foundry, member of
1st Dáil
(Anti Treaty), representing
Limerick
(born in 1882).
14 May –
Robert Quigg
, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1916 at the
Battle of the Somme
(born in 1885).
16 June –
Stanislaus Joyce
, scholar and writer, brother of
James Joyce
(born in 1884).
11 July –
Frank Duffy
, labour leader in the United States (born in 1861).
15 July –
James Dolan
, merchant, member of
1st Dáil
(Pro Treaty), representing
Leitrim
(born in 1882).
16 July –
May Guinness
, writer (born 1863).
18 July –
Billy McCandless
, footballer and football manager (born in 1893).
14 September –
Kathleen Lynn
, physician and politician (born in 1874).
26 October –
Michael Staines
,
Sinn Féin
TD, member of
1st Dáil
, first Commissioner of the
Garda Síochána
(born in 1885).
References
edit
^
"The 1950s".
Irish TV: The story of Irish Television
. Archived from the original on 2009-04-14
. Retrieved
2012-02-15
.
^
Fr Joseph Leonard’s importance to Kennedys recalled by Liam Cosgrave
The Irish Times
, 2014-05-14.
^
An Inspirational Trip to the JFK Museum Of Exhibition in Dublin
ELPP Summer 2013
, 2013-07-02.
^
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