1967 in Ireland

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January 9 - Demonstrations by the National Farmers' Association cause major chaos as farm machinery blocks many roads.
April 4 - The Fianna Fáil Party makes a presentation to former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
April 18 - The Minister for Education, Donagh O'Malley, reveals his plan for a single multi-denominational University of Dublin. This would combine University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.
July 1 - Jacqueline Kennedy goes racing at the Curragh with An Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Mrs. Lynch.
August 4 - Senator Margaret M. Pearse, sister of Pádraig Pearse and Willie Pearse, the executed 1916 leaders, is 89 today. She is greeted by President de Valera.
September 4 - Ireland's free post-primary school transport scheme begins. CIÉ brings 38,000 students to 350 schools.
November 4 - An Taoiseach Jack Lynch returns to Dublin following talks on the European Community with General Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
December 2 - The poet Patrick Kavanagh is buried in his native Inniskeen, County Monaghan.
December 4 - The first independent computer in this country open at Shannon Airport.
December 29 - the Minister for Labour, Dr. Patrick Hillery, announces details of a new redundancy payments scheme which takes effect from New Year's Day.

November 19 - Jimmy O'Connor scores the world's fastest ever hat-trick in a first-class match when he grabbed three goals in 2 minutes and 13 seconds (some sources dispute this, and claim the actual time was 2 minutes and 14 seconds) for Shelbourne against Bohemians in a League of Ireland match at Dalymount Park.

January 1 - Seamus Aloysius Bourke, member 1st Dáil, (Pro Treaty), Minister for Local Government and Public Health (1923 to 1927).
April 1 - Jane Wyse Power, member of the Seanad from 1922 to 1936
September 14 - Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, Chancellor University of Dublin (1927 - 1963)
December 18 - James Everett, trade union official, Labour Party Teachta Dála for 44 years from 1923 representing Wicklow, Cabinet Minister, famed for Battle of Baltinglass concerning the appointment of a sub-postmaster