1951 in Ireland

1951
in
Ireland

Decades:	1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s
Centuries:	18th • 19th • 20th • 21st
See also:	1951 in Northern Ireland Other events of 1951 List of years in Ireland

Events

February 2 - Éamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
April 11 - Minister for Health Dr. Noel Browne resigns and his Mother and Child Scheme is overturned.
April 19 - The Northern Ireland Attorney-General, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, says that Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth.
May 24 - Gardaí exchange shots with two men after they throw a bomb at the British Embassy in Dublin.
June 8 - Jack Doyle defeats America's 'Beer Baron' Two-Ton Tony Gelanto at Tolka Park.
June 10 - Justice George Gavan Duffy, one of the signatories of the Treaty in 1921, dies in Dublin.
June 13 - Éamon de Valera becomes Taoiseach with one of the smallest majorities on record 74-69.
July 1 - Taoiseach Éamon de Valera pays his first visit to Derry in 25 years.
July 18 - The Abbey Theatre in Dublin is burnt to the ground.
November 15 - The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded jointly to Professor Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin and Sir John Cockcroft.

Winners: Cork Athletic

Winners: Transport 1 - 1, 1 - 0 Shelbourne.

4 January - Paddy Roche, soccer player.
25 January - M. J. Nolan, Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow–Kilkenny and former Senator.
27 January - Brian Downey, drummer.
4 February - Patrick Bergin, actor.
6 February - Margo, singer.
14 February - Alan Shatter, Fine Gael TD for Dublin South.
1 March - J. P. McManus, businessman and racehorse owner.
16 March - John Egan, former Dublin GAA County Chairman (d.2007).
25 March - Gerard Murphy, Fine Gael TD representing Cork North West.

4 April - Alan Hughes, cricketer.
24 April - Enda Kenny, current leader of Fine Gael, TD for Mayo.
1 May - Michael McDowell, founding member of Progressive Democrats, former TD, Cabinet Minister, and Attorney-General.
21 May - Ray O'Brien, soccer player.
26 May - Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, former Fine Gael TD, councillor.
6 June - Frank Fahey, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway West.
12 June - Nóirín Ní Riain, singer, musician, writer, theologian.
27 June - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland.

July - Anne Colley, former Progressive Democrats politician.
30 August - Dana Rosemary Scallon, Eurovision Song Contest winner and former MEP.
12 September - Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil.
5 October - Bob Geldof, singer, songwriter and humanitarian.
18 December - Noel Treacy, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East.
30 December - Gay Mitchell, TD representing Dublin South Central, MEP for Dublin.

John Aimers, educator and Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada.
Darina Allen, chef and television personality.
Adrian Hardiman, justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.
Geraldine Kennedy, journalist, politician and first female editor of The Irish Times.
Joe McKenna, former Limerick hurler and manager.
Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, singer.

9 January - John Aston, cricketer (b.1882).
17 January - Alexander Haslett, independent TD (b.1883).
18 January - Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer (b.1867).
26 January - Thomas Houghton, Anglican Clergyman and editor of the Gospel Magazine (b.1859).
18 March - Thomas Foran, trade union official, continuous membership of the Seanad from 1922 to 1948.
27 March - James Geoghegan, Fianna Fáil TD, Minister for Justice, Attorney General of Ireland and Justice of the Supreme Court (b.1886).
29 March - Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta, Canada (b.1869).
10 April - Nora Barnacle, lover, companion, inspiration and wife of James Joyce (b.1884).
12 April - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (b.1863).
19 May - Frederick Barton Maurice, soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the British Legion in 1920 (b.1871).
10 June - George Gavan Duffy, barrister, Sinn Féin MP (b.1882).
21 June - Eugene O'Mahoney, museum curator and entomologist (b.1899).

24 July - Paddy Moore, soccer player (b.1910).
16 August - Gus Kelly, cricketer (b.1877).
17 August - Joseph Warwick Bigger, professor, member of the Dublin University panel in the Seanad from 1944 to 1951.
25 August - John J. McGrath, Democrat U.S. Representative from California (b.1872).
27 November - George Meldon, cricketer (b.1885).