1954 in Ireland
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[edit] Events
- January 11 - The Irish Council of the European Movement is formed in Dublin.
- January 19 - The government announces that the new Cork Airport will be built at Ballygarvan, four miles south of the city.
- February 19 - Captain Henry Harrison, the last surviving member of the party led by Charles Stewart Parnell, dies aged 87.
- April 20 - Michael Manning, aged 25, is executed in Mountjoy Prison. he is the last person to be judicially executed in the State.
- May 5 - At its headquarters in Kingsbridge, CIÉ signs a £4.75 million contract to replace its steam trains with diesel locomotives.
- May 16 - 30,000 march through Dublin city in a huge Marian Year procession. It is the city's greatest display of Catholic faith since the International Eucharistic Congress since 1932.
- May 18 - Fianna Fáil lose four seats in the general election. The second inter-party government under John A. Costello comes to power.
- June 28 - Alfie Byrne is elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for the tenth time.
- July 5 - Dublin Corporation decides that Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street will not be removed.
- September 5 - 27 people die when KLM Flight 633 plane crashes two minutes after leaving Shannon Airport.
- September 8 - Marian College Dublin opened for the first time.
- October 16 - A marble plaque is unveiled at Westland Row, Dublin to mark the centenary of the birth of Oscar Wilde.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
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- Winners: Shamrock Rovers
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- Winners: Drumcondra 1 - 0 St Patrick's Athletic.
[edit] Births
[edit] January to June
- 3 January - Fintan Cullen, art historian and writer.
- 10 January - Bairbre de Brún, Sinn Féin MEP and first Sinn Féin politician to represent Northern Ireland in the European Parliament.
- 29 April - Gavan O'Herlihy, actor.
- April - Róisín Shortall, Irish Labour Party TD for Dublin North West.
- 8 March - Dermot Keely, soccer player and manager.
- 30 April - Gerry Daly, soccer player.
- 13 May - Johnny Logan, singer and songwriter.
- 25 May - Daragh O'Malley, actor.
[edit] July to December
- 6 July - Tim Kennelly, former Gaelic footballer with Kerry (d.2005).
- 11 July - Liam Thomas Quinn, priest and teacher.
- 23 July - Arthur Morgan, former Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoner, Sinn Féin TD for Louth.
- 28 July - Mikey Sheehy, former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
- 22 August - Jimmy Barry-Murphy, hurler and footballer with Cork.
- 8 September - Áine Brady, Fianna Fáil TD for Kildare North.
- 8 October - Tony Ward, former international rugby player and sports journalist.
- 16 October - Noel Slevin, journalist.
- 2 November - Martin Cullen, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Waterford and Cabinet Minister.
- 11 December - Noel Lane, Galway hurler and manager.
- 17 December - Sile de Valera, Fianna Fáil TD representing Clare, Minister and MEP.
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- December - John Fenton, Cork hurler.
- George Birmingham, former Fine Gael politician.
- Brian Cody, former Kilkenny hurler, manager.
- Catherine Dunne, author.
- Ger Fennelly, former Kilkenny hurler.
- Billy Fitzpatrick, former Kilkenny hurler.
- Paddy Glackin, fiddle player.
- Ger Henderson, former Kilkenny hurler.
- Sean O'Callaghan, former Provisional Irish Republican Army member and Garda Síochána informer.
- Harry O'Donoghue, musician and songwriter.
- Bertie Óg Murphy, Cork hurler and manager.
- Francis Martin O'Donnell, United Nations official.
- Eugene Sheehy, Group Chief Executive of Allied Irish Bank Plc.
[edit] Deaths
- 20 April - Michael Manning, carter, convicted of murder and hanged, last person executed in the Republic of Ireland.
- 1 May - James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (b.1865).
- 20 May - Roger Sweetman, barrister-at-law, member of 1st Dáil representing North Wexford .
- 8 July - George Gardiner, boxer (b.1877).
- 16 September - James Douglas, member of the 1922 Seanad.
- 21 October - Thomas V Honan, merchant, Fianna Fáil member of the Seanad.
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- Elinor Darwin, engraver and painter (b.1871).
