1952 in Ireland
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[edit] Events
- January 8 - Peig Sayers travels to Dublin for the first time in 81 years.
- January 10 - An Aer Lingus aircraft crashes in Wales killing twenty passengers and the crew. It is the airline's first fatal crash in its fifteen-year history.
- April 30 - The Adoption Bill makes provision for the adoption of orphans and children aged between six months and seven years born outside wedlock.
- May 11 - In Washington, the House Foreign affairs Committee explains that Ireland's exclusion from Marshall Aid is due to its wartime neutrality.
- May 30 - The Minister for Education, Seán Moylan, announces longer summer holidays for national school children.
- November 24 - The Minister for Defence, Oscar Traynor, presents framed copies of the Proclamation to three printers who had been involved in the production of the original work.
- December 29 - Éamon de Valera arrives back in Dublin after spending four months at an eye clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands.
[edit] Arts and literature
Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot was published in French.
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
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- Winners: St Patrick's Athletic
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- Winners: Dundalk 1 - 1, 3 - 0 Cork Athletic.
[edit] Golf
- Irish Open - no tournament held.
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- 30 January - Anne Doyle, newsreader.
- 10 February - Martin Ferris, former Provisional IRA member, Sinn Féin TD for Kerry North.
- 25 February - Seánie O'Leary, Cork hurler.
- 3 March - Dermot Morgan, actor and comedian (d.1998).
- 18 March - Pat Eddery, former flat racing jockey.
- 29 March - John Gilligan, drug smuggler implicated in the murder of Veronica Guerin.
- 14 April - Mickey O'Sullivan, former Kerry Gaelic footballer, Limerick manager.
- 28 April - Gerald Barry, composer.
- 27 June - Ger Power, former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
- June - Tony Killeen, Fianna Fáil TD for Clare, Minister of State.
[edit] July to December
- 11 July - Tom Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South, Government Chief Whip.
- 4 August - Moya Brennan, singer.
- 5 August - Louis Walsh, manager in the music industry, and judge on The X Factor.
- 9 August - Dinny Allen, Cork Gaelic footballer.
- 25 August - Martin Duffy, filmmaker and writer.
- 11 September - Jimmy Deenihan, Fine Gael TD for Kerry North.
- 27 September - Liam Aylward, former Fianna Fáil TD, MEP representing East.
- 7 October - Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, folk and traditional musician (d.2006).
- 22 October - Mick Fairclough, former soccer player.
- 1 November - Willie O'Dea, barrister-at-law, lecturer,Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Limerick East, Cabinet Minister.
- 21 November - Eamonn Coghlan, four-time Olympian and world championship winning runner.
- 28 November - Pat Cox, former Progressive Democrats TD, MEP representing Munster, 5th President of the directly elected European Parliament and television presenter.
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- Ger Canning, Gaelic Athletic Association hurling and football commentator.
- Tim Crowley, Cork hurler.
- Felim Egan, painter.
- John Ellis, former Fianna Fáil TD, Senator.
- John MacKenna, playwright and novelist.
- Michael Mulcahy, painter.
- Brian Murphy, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
- Martin O'Doherty, Cork hurler.
- Maurice Scully, poet and editor.
- Peter Sheridan, playwright, screenwriter and director.
- Noel Synnott, soccer player and manager.
[edit] Deaths
- 6 February - George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (b. 1895)
- 18 February - Ernest Henry Alton, university professor, represented Dublin University in Dáil from 1921 to 1927, represented Dublin University in Seanad from 1938 to 1943.
- 27 February - Helena Concannon, Fianna Fáil politician and historian (b.1878).
- 21 March - James Perry Goodbody, nominated to the 1922 Seanad and the 1925 Seanad by the President of the Executive Council.
- 9 May - P. J. Ruttledge, Sinn Féin, then Fianna Fáil, TD and Cabinet Minister (b.1892).
- 23 October - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (b.1857).
- 2 November - Maire O'Neill, actress (b.1885).
[edit] Full date unknown
- J. J. O'Reilly, Cavan Gaelic footballer (b.1919).
