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List of events in Ireland in 1950
Events from the year 1950 in Ireland .
Incumbents
Events
March –
ESB 's
turf -fired power station at
Portarlington officially opened.
12 March –
Llandow air disaster : 83 people died when a plane carrying
Welsh rugby fans home from
Belfast crashed in
South Wales .
[1]
12 May – Nationalist Senators and Members of Parliament in
Northern Ireland asked the government of
Ireland to give Northern-elected representatives seats in
Dáil Éireann and
Seanad Éireann .
1 July – Sir
Gilbert Laithwaite , hitherto British Representative to Ireland, became the first British Ambassador to Ireland. (
Frederick Boland was the first Irish ambassador to the United Kingdom.)
August –
Jacqueline Bouvier paid her first visit to Ireland with her step-brother
Hugh D. Auchincloss following her studies at the
Sorbonne . She attended the
Dublin Horse Show , visited the
Abbey Theatre , and met the Taoiseach, John A Costello. She and her brother also visited County Cork, where they kissed the
Blarney Stone , as well as Galway, Kildare, Killarney, and Tipperary. Bouvier returned in 1955 as the wife of Senator
John F. Kennedy , and once again in 1967.
[2]
[3]
11 August – At a meeting of the
European Consultative Assembly in
Strasbourg Irish representatives voted against
Winston Churchill 's plan for a
European army .
Arts and literature
Sport
League of Ireland
Winners:
Cork Athletic
FAI Cup
Winners:
Transport 2–2, 2–2, 3–1
Cork Athletic .
Gaelic Games
Mayo were All Ireland Gaelic Football Champions.
Golf
Births
30 January –
Paddy Keenan ,
uilleann pipes player.
25 February –
Neil Jordan , film director/producer and fiction writer.
5 March –
Patrick Cockburn , journalist.
12 March –
Willie Duggan , rugby union player (died 2017).
18 March
29 March –
Miah Dennehy , soccer player.
21 April –
Pádraig Horan ,
Offaly hurler.
12 May –
Gabriel Byrne , actor.
17 May –
Michael P. Kitt ,
Fianna Fáil
TD for
Galway East .
21 May –
Marian Finucane , broadcast presenter (died 2020).
22 May –
Bill Whelan , composer of
Riverdance .
25 May –
John Horgan ,
Cork
hurler .
1 June –
Gemma Craven , actress.
23 June –
Éamon Ó Cuív , Fianna Fáil TD for
Galway West ,
Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs .
24 June –
Bob Carlos Clarke , photographer (died 2006).
29 June –
Vere Wynne-Jones , journalist, sports broadcaster (died 2006).
17 July –
Michael Colgan , director, Gate Theatre.
1 August
3 August –
Mick Flavin , country music singer.
12 August
14 August –
Dermot Desmond , businessman and entrepreneur.
23 August –
David Molony , lawyer,
Fine Gael TD and senator (died 2002).
26 August –
Don Baker , singer songwriter.
29 August –
Dick Spring ,
Tánaiste , leader of the
Labour Party and Cabinet Minister.
5 September
5 October –
Michael Gaughan ,
Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker (died in
Parkhurst Prison in 1974).
30 October –
Gearoid Denvir , Gaeilgeoir, writer, academic, Mayor of Camus, Co na Gaillimhe
[5]
6 December –
Jan O'Sullivan , Labour Party TD for
Limerick East .
10 December –
Desmond Hogan , writer.
16 December –
Dolours Price , political activist and
Provisional Irish Republican Army member (died 2013).
[6]
December –
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin , musician (died 2018).
Full date unknown
Deaths
24 March –
Robert Johnston , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the
Battle of Elandslaagte , South Africa (born in 1872).
22 April –
John T. McNicholas ,
Archbishop of
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and founder of the
Catholic Legion of Decency (born in 1877).
26 April –
R. A. Stewart Macalister , archaeologist (born in 1870).
10 May –
Art O'Connor ,
Sinn Féin
MP , member of
1st Dáil , Cabinet Minister, lawyer and judge (born in 1888).
11 June –
Stephen Gwynn , journalist, writer, poet and Nationalist politician (born in 1864).
25 June –
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin , writer (born in 1904).
2 July –
George Edward Pugin Meldon , cricketer (born in 1875).
20 July –
Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran ,
Unionist politician (born in 1880).
13 September –
Sara Allgood , actress (born in 1879).
13 October –
Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken , barrister (born in 1877).
2 November –
George Bernard Shaw , playwright and winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (born in 1856).
9 November –
Diarmuid Lynch , member of
1st Dáil representing
Cork South-East .
1 December –
E. J. Moeran , composer (born in 1894).
26 December –
James Stephens , novelist and poet (born in 1882).
Full date unknown
References