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List of events in Ireland in 1957
Events from the year 1957 in Ireland .
Incumbents
Events
1 January –
Border Campaign :
Seán South and
Fergal O'Hanlon were killed in an
Irish Republican Army (IRA) attack on a
Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in
Brookeborough ,
County Fermanagh .
[1] Following this, the
Government of Ireland used the current
Offences Against the State Act to arrest most of the IRA's leadership, including its Chief of Staff,
Seán Cronin .
12 January – Over a hundred
republicans were arrested under the
Special Powers Act in Northern Ireland.
[2]
24 January – Sir
Alfred Chester Beatty became the first person granted
honorary citizenship of Ireland.
4 February – St. Mary's
Church of Ireland Cathedral at
Elphin, County Roscommon , was severely damaged in a violent storm, leading to its abandonment.
[3]
3 March –
Éamon de Valera told a crowd in
Cork that a
United Ireland could be achieved with time and the support of the people.
5 March –
1957 Irish general election :
Fianna Fáil under Éamon de Valera returned to power, winning 78 seats. Members of the
16th Dáil assembled on 20 March.
7 March - A
Percival Provost aircraft crashes on the lower eastern slope of
Table Mountain ,
County Wicklow with the loss of one life.
[4]
11 March –
Prize Bonds were introduced; the
Bank of Ireland operated the scheme on behalf of the
Minister for Finance .
May–September –
Fethard-on-Sea
Ne Temere boycott: a
Roman Catholic priest and some of his parishioners organised a
boycott of
Protestant -owned local businesses.
[5]
4 July – Following the killing of a
Royal Ulster Constabulary officer, the new
Government of Ireland introduced wholesale internment without trial for IRA suspects.
4 July – The Dáil debated the Fethard-on-Sea Ne Temere boycott.
22 July – The Gough Monument in the
Phoenix Park was wrecked by an explosion so violent that it was heard all over
Dublin .
7 August – A 20-foot high war memorial in
Limerick was blown up. It was erected to commemorate British soldiers from Limerick who died in
World War I .
30 September – Last day of operation of 97 miles (155 km) of railway in Northern Ireland (
Great Northern Railway (Ireland) branches and the entire
Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway ) following government instructions.
County Fermanagh lost all its lines. The GNR closed a further 84 miles (134 km) of connecting lines in the Republic on October 12.
2 October – The
Minister for Health ,
Seán MacEntee , launched the Voluntary Health Insurance Board.
7 October –
President
Seán T. O'Kelly 's country residence, Roundwood House,
County Wicklow , was destroyed by fire.
10 October – The
Windscale fire began with a fire in a graphite core of a
reactor at the
Windscale Nuclear Power station and reprocessing centre on the
Cumberland coast of
North West England . Years later there were claims that the radiation caused cancers and birth defects in
County Louth .
27 October – The foundation stone of
Galway Cathedral was blessed.
1 November – The
Soviet satellite
Sputnik was visible over Dublin for the second time in a month.
November –
Border Campaign : The premature explosion of a bomb at a farmhouse in County Louth killed four IRA men and a householder.
[1]
Undated –
Cyril Lord opened a new factory for the production of tufted carpets at
Donaghadee ,
County Down .
[6]
Arts and literature
Sport
Golf
Births
17 January –
Colm Burke ,
Fine Gael
Lord Mayor of Cork , MEP.
22 January –
Ray Flynn , Irish-American runner
7 February –
Regina Joyce , long-distance runner.
15 February
26 February –
Charlie Nelligan ,
Kerry Gaelic footballer.
6 April –
Dermot Mac Curtain ,
Cork hurler.
8 April –
Richie Power ,
Kilkenny hurler.
23 April –
Tommy Quaid ,
Limerick hurler (died
1998 ).
13 March –
Patricia McKenna ,
Green Party politician.
7 March –
Seán Crowe ,
Sinn Féin
TD for
Dublin South-West .
21 March –
Pat Breen ,
Fine Gael
TD for
Clare .
20 May –
Dermot Gallagher , soccer referee.
23 May –
Jimmy McShane , singer
28 May –
Dick O'Hara ,
Kilkenny hurler.
17 June –
Philip Chevron , born Philip Ryan, Celtic punk singer-songwriter and guitarist (died
2013 ).
20 June –
Kieran Brennan ,
Kilkenny hurler and
Irish Army General.
17 July –
Terry Eviston , soccer player.
2 August –
Ashley Grimes , soccer player and coach.
7 August –
Daire Brehan , actress, broadcaster and barrister (died
2012 in the United Kingdom ).
28 August –
Tom Cashman ,
Cork hurler.
26 September –
Finbar Wright , singer.
8 October –
Martha Kearney , radio journalist.
14 October –
John Henderson ,
Kilkenny hurler.
16 October –
Eoin Liston ,
Kerry Gaelic footballer.
6 November –
Siobhán McCarthy , actress.
19 November –
Jack O'Shea ,
Kerry Gaelic footballer.
24 November –
John Minihan , soldier,
Progressive Democrats
Seanad Éireann member.
12 December –
Jon Kenny , comedian.
17 December –
Robbie Gaffney , soccer player.
25 December –
Shane MacGowan , English-born Celtic punk singer-songwriter (died
2023 ).
Undated
Deaths
1 January –
Fergal O'Hanlon ,
Irish Republican Army member killed with
Seán South attacking the
Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in
Brookeborough (born
1936 ).
1 January –
Seán South ,
IRA leader fatally wounded during an attack on a
Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in
Brookeborough (born
1929 ).
11 January –
Anthony Mulvey , editor and
Nationalist Party MP (born
1882 ).
16 February –
John Sealy Townsend , mathematical physicist (died
1868 ).
25 March
28 March –
Jack B. Yeats , artist (born
1871 ).
29 March –
John J. O'Kelly , politician, author and publisher, president of the
Gaelic League and
Sinn Féin (born
1872 ).
11 April –
Freeman Wills Crofts , novelist (born
1879 ).
23 May –
William Meldon , cricketer (born
1879 ).
26 May –
Edward Hutchinson Synge , theoretical physicist (born
1890 )
26 June –
Colm Gallagher ,
Fianna Fáil
TD for
Dublin North-Central and boxing referee.
1 August –
Cathal O'Byrne , singer, poet and writer (born
1867 ).
22 September –
Oliver St. John Gogarty , physician, poet and writer (born
1878 ).
25 October –
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany , writer and dramatist (born 1878).
9 November –
Peter O'Connor , athlete (born
1872 ).
16 November –
Seán Moylan , member
Irish Volunteers ,
Sinn Féin and
Fianna Fáil
TD , Cabinet Minister and
Seanad Éireann member (born
1888 ).
6 December –
Michael James O'Rourke , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 at
Hill 70 near Lens, France (born
1878 ).
21 December –
Thomas Sadleir , genealogist (born
1882 ).
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