15 June – Prince Rainier and Princess Grace took tea in the
Kelly homestead, near
Newport, County Mayo from which the princess's grandfather, John Henry Kelly, left for America almost 100 years before.
16 September – Atlantic
Hurricane Debbie made landfall at
Dooega on
Achill Island, then tracked across
County Mayo, the only known tropical cyclone to make landfall in Ireland. Winds gusted up to 114 mph (183 km/h) off the island of
Arranmore.
25 October – St. John's Church in
Sligo was reconstituted as the Cathedral Church for the
Church of Ireland dioceses of Elphin and Ardagh, under the name of the Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist.[1]
November – Minister for Justice
Charles Haughey established military courts which handed down long prison sentences to convicted
Irish Republican Army men.
10 November – The
Guinness ship Lady Gwendolen rammed and sank the Freshfield, anchored in fog on the
River Mersey in Liverpool.
31 December – Ireland's first television channel,
Telefís Éireann, commenced broadcasting as President de Valera inaugurated the new service. The station's first broadcast was a new year countdown with celebrations at the
Gresham Hotel in Dublin, relayed from the transmitter on
Kippure mountain.
The last
Irish Sea sail-using cargo vessel (and the last sail ship to trade on the River Mersey in Liverpool), the
Arklow auxiliary
schoonerDe Wadden, ceased trading commercially.[2][3]
German writer
Enno Stephan's book Geheimauftrag Irland: Deutsche Agenten im Irischen Untergrundkampf 1939-1945 gave the first full account of Nazi spies in Ireland during
"The Emergency" (the World War II period in Ireland).
Arts and literature
Dominic Behan's autobiography Tell Dublin I Miss Her and autobiographical novel Teems of Times were published.
John Montague's poetry Poisoned Lands was published.
15 June – Prince Rainier and Princess Grace took tea in the
Kelly homestead, near
Newport, County Mayo from which the princess's grandfather, John Henry Kelly, left for America almost 100 years before.
16 September – Atlantic
Hurricane Debbie made landfall at
Dooega on
Achill Island, then tracked across
County Mayo, the only known tropical cyclone to make landfall in Ireland. Winds gusted up to 114 mph (183 km/h) off the island of
Arranmore.
25 October – St. John's Church in
Sligo was reconstituted as the Cathedral Church for the
Church of Ireland dioceses of Elphin and Ardagh, under the name of the Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist.[1]
November – Minister for Justice
Charles Haughey established military courts which handed down long prison sentences to convicted
Irish Republican Army men.
10 November – The
Guinness ship Lady Gwendolen rammed and sank the Freshfield, anchored in fog on the
River Mersey in Liverpool.
31 December – Ireland's first television channel,
Telefís Éireann, commenced broadcasting as President de Valera inaugurated the new service. The station's first broadcast was a new year countdown with celebrations at the
Gresham Hotel in Dublin, relayed from the transmitter on
Kippure mountain.
The last
Irish Sea sail-using cargo vessel (and the last sail ship to trade on the River Mersey in Liverpool), the
Arklow auxiliary
schoonerDe Wadden, ceased trading commercially.[2][3]
German writer
Enno Stephan's book Geheimauftrag Irland: Deutsche Agenten im Irischen Untergrundkampf 1939-1945 gave the first full account of Nazi spies in Ireland during
"The Emergency" (the World War II period in Ireland).
Arts and literature
Dominic Behan's autobiography Tell Dublin I Miss Her and autobiographical novel Teems of Times were published.
John Montague's poetry Poisoned Lands was published.