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List of events in Ireland in 1951
Events from the year 1951 in Ireland .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
League of Ireland
Winners:
Cork Athletic
FAI Cup
Winners:
Transport 1–1, 1–0
Shelbourne .
Boxing
GAA
Mayo successfully defended All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final by defeating Meath 2-8 to 0-9.
Golf
Births
4 January –
Paddy Roche , soccer player.
25 January –
M. J. Nolan ,
Fianna Fáil
TD for
Carlow–Kilkenny and
Senator .
27 January –
Brian Downey , drummer.
4 February –
Patrick Bergin , actor.
6 February –
Margo , singer.
14 February –
Alan Shatter ,
Fine Gael TD for
Dublin South .
1 March –
J. P. McManus , businessman and racehorse owner.
16 March –
John Egan ,
Dublin GAA County Chairman (died 2007).
25 March –
Gerard Murphy ,
Fine Gael TD representing
Cork North-West .
4 April –
Alan Hughes , cricketer.
24 April –
Enda Kenny , leader of
Fine Gael , TD for
Mayo .
1 May –
Michael McDowell , founding member of
Progressive Democrats , TD, Cabinet Minister and
Attorney-General .
10 May –
Ger Canning ,
Gaelic Athletic Association
hurling and
football commentator.
21 May
23 May –
Viscount Slane, later The Marquess Conyngham , pop concert promoter.
26 May –
Madeleine Taylor-Quinn ,
Fine Gael TD, councillor.
6 June –
Frank Fahey ,
Fianna Fáil TD for
Galway West .
10 June –
Joe McKenna ,
Limerick hurler and manager.
12 June –
Nóirín Ní Riain , singer, musician, writer and theologian.
27 June –
Mary McAleese , eighth
President of Ireland .
July –
Anne Colley ,
Progressive Democrats politician.
August –
Peter Mathews , TD representing
Dublin South and economic commentator (died 2017).
30 August –
Dana Rosemary Scallon , singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner and
Member of the European Parliament .
1 September –
Geraldine Kennedy , journalist, politician and first female editor of
The Irish Times .
12 September –
Bertie Ahern ,
Taoiseach and leader of
Fianna Fáil .
5 October –
Bob Geldof , singer, songwriter and humanitarian.
18 December –
Noel Treacy ,
Fianna Fáil TD for
Galway East .
30 December –
Gay Mitchell , TD representing
Dublin South-Central , Member of the European Parliament for Dublin.
Full date unknown
Deaths
9 January –
John Aston , cricketer (born 1882).
17 January –
Alexander Haslett , independent TD (born 1883).
18 January –
Amy Carmichael , Christian missionary and writer (born 1867).
26 January –
Thomas Houghton , Anglican clergyman and editor of the
Gospel Magazine (born 1859).
18 March –
Thomas Foran , trade union official, member of the
Seanad from 1922 to 1948.
27 March –
James Geoghegan ,
Fianna Fáil TD,
Minister for Justice ,
Attorney General of Ireland and Justice of the
Supreme Court (born 1886).
29 March –
Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury , politician in
Alberta , Canada (born 1869).
10 April –
Nora Barnacle , wife of author
James Joyce (born 1884).
12 April –
Henry De Vere Stacpoole , ship's doctor and author (born 1863).
19 May –
Frederick Barton Maurice , soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the
British Legion in 1920 (born 1871).
10 June – Justice
George Gavan Duffy , barrister,
Sinn Féin Member of Parliament and a signatory of the
Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921 (born 1882).
21 June –
Eugene O'Mahoney , museum curator and
entomologist (born 1899).
24 July –
Paddy Moore , soccer player (born 1909).
16 August –
Gus Kelly , cricketer (born 1877).
17 August –
Joseph Warwick Bigger , professor, member of the
Dublin University constituency in the
Seanad from 1944 to 1951.
25 August –
John J. McGrath ,
Democratic
U.S. Representative from
California (born 1872).
27 November –
George Meldon , cricketer (born 1885).
Full date unknown
References