1950 in Ireland

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1950
in
Ireland

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

Events

12 March - Llandow air disaster: 83 people die when a plane carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in South Wales.^[1]
12 May - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
1 July - Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, hitherto British Representative, Republic of Ireland becomes the first British Ambassador to Ireland. Frederick Boland is the first Irish ambassador to the United Kingdom.
11 August - At a meeting of the European Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg Irish representatives vote against Winston Churchill's plan for a European Army.

2 November - George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic, dies aged 94 in England.
Canadian-born painter James Le Jeune settles in Ireland.
Siobhán McKenna stars in her own translation of Shaw's Saint Joan into Irish.^[2]
Chester Beatty Library established in Dublin.

Winners: Cork Athletic

Winners: Transport 2 - 2, 2 - 2, 3 - 1 Cork Athletic.

25 February - Neil Jordan, director, writer and producer.
5 March - Patrick Cockburn, journalist.
18 March - Bobby Miller, Gaelic footballer and manager (died 2006).
29 March - Miah Dennehy, soccer player.
12 May - Gabriel Byrne, actor.
22 May - Bill Whelan, composer of Riverdance.
25 May - John Horgan, Cork hurler.
May - Michael P. Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East.
1 June - Gemma Craven, actress.
23 June - Éamon Ó Cuív, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway West and Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.
24 June - Bob Carlos Clarke, photographer (died 2006).
29 June - Vere Wynne-Jones, journalist, sports broadcaster.
17 July - Michael Colgan, Director Gate Theatre.

12 August - John Carty, Fianna Fáil senator, former TD.
23 August - David Molony, lawyer, former Fine Gael TD and Seanad member (died 2002).
26 August - Don Baker, singer songwriter.
29 August - Dick Spring, former Tánaiste, leader of the Labour Party and Cabinet Minister.
5 September - Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, member European Court of Auditors, former Fianna Fáil TD, former Cabinet Minister.
20 October - Philomena Begley, country music singer.
6 December - Jan O'Sullivan, Irish Labour Party TD for Limerick East.
10 December - Desmond Hogan, writer.

Martin Coleman, Cork hurler.
Brendan Cummins, Cork hurler.
Dermot Desmond, businessman and entrepreneur.
Cyril Farrell, Galway hurling manager.
Marian Finucane, television presenter.
Michael Gaughan, Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker who died in Parkhurst Prison (died 1974).
Pat Hartigan, former Limerick hurler.
Pádraig Horan, Offaly hurler.
Paddy Keenan, uilleann pipes player.
Edmund Lenihan, author, storyteller, lecturer and broadcaster.
Séamus Looney, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
Mick Malone, Cork hurler.
Pat McDonnell, Cork hurler.
Liam O'Brien, former Kilkenny hurler.
Patrick Parfrey, nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist in Canada.
Michael Warren, sculptor.

24 March - Robert Johnston, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Elandslaagte, South Africa (born 1872).
22 April - John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and founder of the Catholic Legion of Decency (born 1877).
10 May - Art O'Connor, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, lawyer and judge (born 1888).
11 June - Stephen Gwynn, journalist, writer, poet and Nationalist politician (born 1864).
25 June - Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, writer (born 1904).
2 July - George Edward Pugin Meldon, cricketer (born 1875).
20 July - Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (born 1880).
13 September - Sara Allgood, actress (born 1879).
13 October - Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken, barrister (born 1877).
2 November - George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (born 1856).
9 November - Diarmuid Lynch, member of 1st Dáil representing Cork South–East.
1 December - E. J. Moeran, composer (born 1894).
26 December - James Stephens, novelist and poet (born 1882).

↑ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. 2008. p. 816. ISBN 9780708319536.
↑ Broderick, Marian (2002). Wild Irish Women. Dublin: O'Brien Press. p. 321. ISBN 978-0-86278-780-6.

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