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List of events in Ireland in 1975
Events in the year 1975 in Ireland.
- January–June – Ireland held
Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time.
- 7 January –
Sinéad de Valera, wife of the former president, died in
Dublin aged 96.
- 30 January –
Charles Haughey was brought back onto the
Fianna Fáil party front bench.
- 14 March –
Pierre Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, paid a brief visit to Ireland and held bilateral talks at
Dublin Castle.
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- 17 April –
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, and
Our Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort, became recognised colleges of the
National University of Ireland.
- 18 June – Danny O'Hare became acting director of the
National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin; a day later, the governing body first met.
- 31 July –
Miami Showband killings: Three members of
The Miami Showband and two paramilitaries were killed in an
Ulster Volunteer Force ambush in
County Down as they returned home to Dublin from playing at a dance in
Banbridge, Northern Ireland.
- 29 August – Former revolutionary,
Taoiseach, and
President of Ireland,
Éamon de Valera died in Dublin aged 92. The government announced a day of mourning.
- 3 October –
Dutch industrialist and
Limerick factory owner
Tiede Herrema was kidnapped.
- 12 October –
Oliver Plunkett, the 17th-century Archbishop of Armagh, was canonised by Pope
Paul VI in Rome.
- 21 October – Tiede Herrema was located with his kidnappers in
Monasterevin,
County Kildare and a police siege began.
- 18 November – The Tiede Herrema kidnap siege ended.
- 28 December –
George Best played a
League of Ireland match for Cork Celtic against Drogheda.
- 14 May – Cork-born writer
Patrick Galvin's We Do It For Love, a satire on
The Troubles, opened at the
Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
- 7 October –
Tom Murphy's play
The Sanctuary Lamp opened at the
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
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Leland Bardwell,
Pearse Hutchinson,
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and
Macdara Woods founded the literary publication
Cyphers.
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Garry Hynes,
Mick Lally, and
Marie Mullen founded the
Druid Theatre Company in
Galway.
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Lillias Mitchell founded
the Irish Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers.
- Publications:
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Eavan Boland's collection of poems The War Horse was published.
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Paul Durcan's collection of poems O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was published.
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John McGahern's novel The Leavetaking was published.
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John Ryan's memoir Remembering How We Stood was published.
- 1 January –
Lorraine Pilkington, actress.
- 24 January –
Marie McMahon, long-distance runner
- 12 February –
Andrew Myler, association football player.
- 1 March –
Tara Blaise, singer.
- 17 April –
Mark Foley,
Limerick hurler.
- 19 April –
Hugh O'Conor, actor.
- 25 April –
Dara Ó Cinnéide,
Kerry Gaelic footballer.
- 10 May –
Clodagh McKenna, cookery writer and presenter.
- 10 June –
Seánie McGrath,
Cork hurler.
- 6 August –
Willie Boland, association football player.
- 25 August –
Pat Mulcahy, Cork hurler.
- 28 August –
Gareth Farrelly, association football player.
- 15 September –
Owen Butler, cricketer.
- 2 October –
Girvan Dempsey, rugby player.
- 7 November –
Ollie Moran, Limerick hurler.
- 16 December –
Graham Lee, jockey.
- 18 December –
David O'Doherty, comedian.
- 20 December –
Graham Hopkins, drummer.
- Full date unknown
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- 7 January –
Sinéad de Valera, writer and wife of former president,
Éamon de Valera (born 1878).
- 23 February –
Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist, and theatre manager, member of
First Dáil, and Cabinet minister (born 1889).
- 27 February –
John Vincent Holland, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at
Guillemont, France (born 1889).
- 21 April –
James Kempster, cricketer (born 1892).
- 23 April –
Michael Carty, Fianna Fáil party
Teachta Dála (TD) (born 1916).
- 28 April –
Tom Dreaper, horse trainer.
- 29 April –
Arthur Blair-White, cricketer (born 1891).
- 10 May –
Michael Tierney,
Cumann na nGaedheal party TD,
Fine Gael party member of
Seanad Éireann (Senate) and President of
University College Dublin (born 1894).
- 27 May –
Robert Collis, physician and writer (born 1900).
- 24 June –
Frank MacDermot, barrister, soldier, banker, and politician (born 1886).
- 31 July –
Dan "Sandow" O'Donovan,
Irish Republican Army member during the
Irish War of Independence (b. c1895).
- 9 August –
Maurice Gorham, journalist and broadcasting executive (born 1902).
- 10 August –
Robert Barton,
Sinn Féin party Member of Parliament, Cabinet minister, and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (born 1881).
- 29 August –
Éamon de Valera, former Taoiseach and President of Ireland (born 1882).
- 2 October –
Seamus Murphy, sculptor (born 1907).
- 25 October –
Padraig Marrinan, artist (born 1906).
- 26 October –
William Teeling, author, traveller and UK politician (born 1903).
- 25 November –
Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of
Angela Lansbury (born 1895).
- 14 December –
George Harman, cricketer and rugby player (born 1874).