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Events
Arts and literature
Samuel Beckett\'s Waiting For Godot was published in French.
Sport
Football
- Winners: St Patrick\'s Athletic
- Winners: Dundalk 1 - 1, 3 - 0 Cork Athletic.
Golf
Births
January to June
- 30 January - Anne Doyle, newsreader.
- 10 February - Martin Ferris, former Provisional IRA member, Sinn Féin TD for Kerry North.
- 25 February - Seánie O\'Leary, Cork hurler.
- 3 March - Dermot Morgan, actor and comedian (d.1998).
- 18 March - Pat Eddery, former flat racing jockey.
- 29 March - John Gilligan, drug smuggler implicated in the murder of Veronica Guerin.
- 14 April - Mickey O\'Sullivan, former Kerry Gaelic footballer, Limerick manager.
- 28 April - Gerald Barry, composer.
- 27 June - Ger Power, former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
- June - Tony Killeen, Fianna Fáil TD for Clare, Minister of State.
July to December
- 11 July - Tom Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South, Government Chief Whip.
- 4 August - Moya Brennan, singer.
- 5 August - Louis Walsh, manager in the music industry, and judge on The X Factor.
- 9 August - Dinny Allen, Cork Gaelic footballer.
- 25 August - Martin Duffy, filmmaker and writer.
- 11 September - Jimmy Deenihan, Fine Gael TD for Kerry North.
- 27 September - Liam Aylward, former Fianna Fáil TD, MEP representing East.
- 7 October - Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, folk and traditional musician (d.2006).
- 22 October - Mick Fairclough, former soccer player.
- 1 November - Willie O\'Dea, barrister-at-law, lecturer,Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Limerick East, Cabinet Minister.
- 21 November - Eamonn Coghlan, four-time Olympian and world championship winning runner.
- 28 November - Pat Cox, former Progressive Democrats TD, MEP representing Munster, 5th President of the directly elected European Parliament and television presenter.
Full date unknown
- Ger Canning, Gaelic Athletic Association hurling and football commentator.
- Tim Crowley, Cork hurler.
- Felim Egan, painter.
- John Ellis, former Fianna Fáil TD, Senator.
- John MacKenna, playwright and novelist.
- Michael Mulcahy, painter.
- Brian Murphy, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
- Martin O\'Doherty, Cork hurler.
- Maurice Scully, poet and editor.
- Peter Sheridan, playwright, screenwriter and director.
- Noel Synnott, soccer player and manager.
Deaths
- 18 February - Ernest Henry Alton, university professor, represented Dublin University in Dáil from 1921 to 1927, represented Dublin University in Seanad from 1938 to 1943.
- 27 February - Helena Concannon, Fianna Fáil politician and historian (b.1878).
- 21 March - James Perry Goodbody, nominated to the 1922 Seanad and the 1925 Seanad by the President of the Executive Council.
- 9 May - P. J. Ruttledge, Sinn Féin, then Fianna Fáil, TD and Cabinet Minister (b.1892).
- 23 October - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (b.1857).
- 2 November - Maire O\'Neill, actress (b.1885).
Full date unknown
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