1958 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sports 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown

Events

• 6 February - Dublin's Liam Whelan is among the dead when a plane carrying the Manchester United team crashes in Munich.
• 18 March - Taoiseach Éamon de Valera says he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.
• 20 March - Work begins on the £80,000 restoration of the State rooms at Dublin Castle.
• 10 May - The Independent TD, Jack Murphy, resigns in protest at the indifference of the main political parties to the plight of the unemployed.
• 12 May - Ardmore Studios is opened by Seán Lemass.
• 22 May - The Minister for Education, Jack Lynch, tells the Dáil that the ruling requiring women teachers to retire on marriage is to be revoked.
• 25 July - £100 damages are awarded to a nine-year old who was beaten by his teacher in a national school.
• 28 July - The Carlisle Monument, an eight foot bronze statue in the Phoenix Park, is blown up in the early hours.
• 6 August - Australian athlete Herb Elliott shatters the world record for the mile at Santry Stadium, recording a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds.
• 8 August - The US Embassy in Merrion Square displays plans for a new embassy in Dublin.
• 8 September - Pan Am's Boeing 707 becomes the first jetliner to touch down on European soil at Shannon Airport.
• 1 October - Assets and management of the Great Northern Railway are divided between Córas Iompair Éireann and the Ulster Transport Authority.
• 29 October - The government announces that the ending of the proportional representation method of voting is to be put to the people in a referendum.
• 4 November - In the Vatican, Taoiseach Éamon de Valera attends the four-hour coronation of Pope John XXIII.
• 12 November - Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy is banned by the Censorship of Publications Board.
• 31 December - The Harcourt Street railway line, serving Dundrum, Foxrock and points to Bray, closes

Arts and literature

Sports

• Football World Cup
  • Group stage
    • Northern Ireland 1-1 Czechoslovakia
    • Northern Ireland 1-1 Argentina
    • Northern Ireland 1-1 West Germany
      • Northern Ireland enter group play off stage the World Cup
    • Northern Ireland 2-1 Czechoslovakia AET
      • Northern Ireland qualify for the quarter final stage of the World Cup
    • Northern Ireland 0-4 France
      • Northern Ireland are knocked out at the quarter final stage of the World Cup
• The Republic of Ireland did not qualify for the 1958 world cup

Births

January to June

• 1 January - Liam Fennelly, former Kilkenny hurler.
• 1 February - Seán Fleming, Fianna Fáil TD for Laois–Offaly.
• 19 April - Denis O'Brien, entrepreneur.
• 30 April - James Hewitt, soldier and lover of Diana, Princess of Wales.
• 6 May - Tommy Byrne, former motor racing driver.
• 6 May - Ivor Callely, Fianna Fáil politician, member of the 23rd Seanad Éireann, former TD and Minister of State.
• 8 May - Roddy Doyle, novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.
• 11 May - Conor Hayes, Galway hurler and manager.
• 2 June - John Buckley, former Cork hurler.

July to December

• 5 July - Veronica Guerin, journalist, murdered by drug dealers (d.1996).
• 10 July - Fiona Shaw, actress.
• 11 July - Martin Doherty, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• 10 September - Siobhan Fahey, musician.
• 18 September - John Aldridge, former Irish international soccer player.
• 11 November - John Devine, soccer player.
• 16 September - Maura O'Connell, singer.
• 21 November - Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of the Ireland national rugby union team.

Full date unknown

• Synan Braddish, soccer player.
• Michael Flatley, dancer.
• Aidan Fogarty, Offaly hurler.
• Noel Hill, concertina player.
• Michael Lyster, RTÉ sports broadcaster.
• Fintan O'Toole, journalist and drama critic.
• Paddy Prendergast, former Kilkenny hurler.
• Paul Woodfull, writer, actor, comedian and musician.

Deaths

• 1 January - Richard Hayes, doctor and Sinn Féin MP.
• 17 January - Michael Donohoe, Democrat U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (b.1864).
• 24 March - Seamus O'Sullivan, poet and editor (b.1879).
• 29 March - Jimmy Archer, Major League baseball player (b.1883).
• 6 July - John Lymbrick Esmonde, soldier, Fine Gael TD (b.1893).
• 13 August - James Lennon, member of 1st Dáil representing the County Carlow constituency.
• 24 August - Paul Henry, artist (b.1876).
• 15 October - Lennox Robinson, dramatist, poet and theatre director and producer (b.1886).
• 2 December - Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (b.1892).
• 19 December - Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (b.1868).

Full date unknown

• Dorothy Macardle, author and historian (b.1889).
• Peig Sayers, writer and seanachaí (b.1873).
• Dick Walsh, Kilkenny hurler (b.1878).