1965 in Ireland

1965
in
Ireland

Decades:	1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s
Centuries:	18th • 19th • 20th • 21st
See also:	1965 in Northern Ireland Other events of 1965 List of years in Ireland

Events

January 14 - Taoiseach Seán Lemass travels to Belfast for an historic meeting with the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill.
January 21 - Nationalist leader Eddie McAteer visits Taoiseach Seán Lemass in Dublin.
February 28 - Roger Casement is honoured with a state funeral in Dublin.
March 7 - Changes to the Liturgy of the Mass are introduced throughout the country today. Mass is said in the vernacular for the first time.
March 18 - The Northern Minister for Agriculture, Harry West attends a meeting with his Southern counterpart, Charles Haughey, in Dublin.
April 18 - The Gaelic Athletic Association Congress in Dublin decides that the ban on foreign games is to stay in place.
April 21 - James Dillon resigns as leader of Fine Gael. Liam Cosgrave is the new leader.
May 24 - The first car ferry service between Rosslare, County Wexford and Fishguard, Wales officially opens.
June 13 - Huge crowds turn out at Drumcliffe Churchyard, County Sligo to honour the poet W.B. Yeats on the centenary of his birth.
July 8 - Taoiseach Seán Lemass is conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Law at Trinity College Dublin.
July 26 - Craigavon designated a New Town under the New Towns Act (Northern Ireland).^[1]
November 17 - The remains of W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council are removed to a church in Rathfarnham, Dublin.

22 January - Denis Walsh, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
11 February - Tom Bolger, teacher.
22 February - Kieren Fallon, champion flat racing jockey.
10 March - Damien Hancock, soccer referee.
26 March - John McDonnell, soccer player and manager.
14 May - Eoin Colfer, author.
28 May - Mary Coughlan, Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for Donegal South West
22 June - Enda McCallion, film director.
June - Jim Cashman, Cork hurler.

6 February - Tom Jameson, cricketer (b.1892).
15 February - Sam Thompson, playwright (b.1916).
10 April - James Duhig, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane (b.1873).
12 June - Arthur Cox, solicitor, priest, nominated to 8th Seanad by Taoiseach in 1954.
22 June - Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (b.1881).

28 August - Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven, peer (b.1887).
26 September - James Fitzmaurice, pilot and aviation pioneer (b.1898).
12 November - Charles McCausland, cricketer (b.1898).
16 November - W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (b.1880).
30 December - Henry George Farmer, musicologist (b.1882).