6 January – Lieutenant-General Seán Mac Eoin left Dublin for to the Congo. He was taking up his new post as General Commanding Officer of the United Nations.
15 June – Prince Rainier and Princess Grace took tea in the Kelly homestead, Drimurla, near Newport, County Mayo from which the Princess's grandfather, John Henry Kelly, set off for America almost 100 years before.
25 October – St. John's Church in Sligo was reconstituted as the Cathedral Church for the Church of Irelanddioceses of Elphin and Ardagh, under the name of the Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist.[1]
31 December – Telefís Éireann went on the air as President de Valera inaugurated the new service. The station's first broadcast was a New Year countdown with celebrations at the Gresham Hotel and O'Connell Street, Dublin, relayed from the Kippure transmitter.
German writer Enno Stephan's book Geheimauftrag Irland: Deutsche Agenten im Irischen Untergrundkampf 1939-1945 gave the first full account of Nazi spies in Ireland during "The Emergency" (the World War II period in Ireland).
Arts and literatureedit
Dominic Behan's autobiography Tell Dublin I Miss Her and autobiographical novel Teems of Times were published.
John Montague's poetry Poisoned Lands was published.