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List of events in Ireland in 1971
Events in the year 1971 in Ireland .
Incumbents
Events
4 January –
John McQuaid retired after thirty years as
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin .
Dermot Ryan was appointed to succeed him on 29 December.
15 February –
Decimalisation : Ireland and the United Kingdom both
switched to
decimal currency .
[1]
25 February – A partial
eclipse of the sun (
magnitude 0.708)
darkened the sky across Ireland . In
Dublin , the event lasted two hours and seven minutes. It began at 9.35 am; the maximum was at 10.37 am when 70.8% of the sun's disc was covered by the moon; and it ended at 11.42 am.
[2]
6 March
17 March – The giant Jumbo Jet recently arrived in Ireland flew over the
Saint Patrick's Day parade along
O'Connell Street , Dublin, escorted by four smaller aircraft.
20 March – Major
James Chichester-Clark resigned as
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland . He was succeeded on 23 March by
Brian Faulkner .
3 April – The
Eurovision Song Contest was held in
Dublin . Presented by
Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir , it was the first colour television broadcast by
RTÉ .
11 April
20 April – Two British
Royal Navy survey launches moored off
Baltimore, County Cork , were towed out to sea and bombed by a
Provisional Irish Republican Army unit. One of them, the Stork , was wrecked.
[6]
11 May –
Seán Lemass ,
taoiseach from 1959 to 1966, died aged 71. He fought during the 1916
Easter Rising , the
War of Independence and the
Civil War .
22 May – Members of the
Irish Women's Liberation Movement returned to Dublin bringing contraceptives from
Belfast on the so-called "
Contraceptive Train " to protest against the law banning their importation.
[7]
8 July – Two rioters were shot dead by British troops in Derry.
[8]
16 July – The
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) announced that it was withdrawing from the
Stormont parliament.
9 August –
Internment without trial was introduced in Northern Ireland. Over 300
republicans were arrested in pre-dawn raids by British security forces and interned in
Long Kesh prison. Some
Loyalists were later arrested. Twenty people died in riots that followed, including eleven in the
Ballymurphy Massacre .
[9]
12 August –
British troops began clearing operations[
clarification needed ] in Belfast following the worst rioting in years.
Taoiseach
Jack Lynch called for an end to the
Stormont administration.
7 September – The death toll in
The Troubles reached 100 after three years of violence, with the death of 14-year-old
Annette McGavigan , who was killed by a gunshot during crossfire between British soldiers and the IRA.
25 September – A rally took place in Dublin in support of a campaign of
civil disobedience in Northern Ireland.
27 September –
Prime ministers
Edward Heath , Jack Lynch, and Brian Faulkner met at
Chequers to discuss the Northern Ireland situation.
13 October – The
British Army began to destroy roads between Ireland and Northern Ireland as a security measure.
[10]
23 October – Two women were shot dead by soldiers in Belfast when their car failed to stop at a checkpoint.
[11]
31 October – The Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971
[12] reversed the main provision of the
Standard Time Act 1968 , returning Irish winter time to
UTC+0 (
Western European Time ).
10 November – The Government defeated a motion of no confidence in the
Minister for Agriculture ,
Jim Gibbons .
17 November –
Neil Blaney and
Paudge Brennan were expelled from the
Fianna Fáil parliamentary party.
4 December – The
McGurk's Bar bombing , carried out by the
Ulster Volunteer Force in Belfast, killed 15 people, the highest death toll from a single incident in the city during
The Troubles .
[13]
Undated – Units 1 and 2 of
Poolbeg Generating Station in Dublin were completed.
Arts and literature
Sports
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship:
Offaly 1–14 Galway 2–8
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship:
Tipperary 5–17 Kilkenny 5–14
Births
19 January
20 January –
Ger McDonnell , mountaineer and engineer (d. 2008).
31 January –
Mark Geary , folk singer-songwriter.
3 March – Stephen J. Martin, comic fiction writer.
4 March –
Fergal Lawler , rock drummer with
The Cranberries .
12 March –
Conrad Gallagher , chef.
6 April –
Derek Tracey , association football player.
29 April –
Adrian Maguire , jockey.
30 April –
John Boyne , novelist.
18 June –
Jason McAteer , international association football player.
28 June –
Kenny Cunningham , association football player.
16 July –
Joe McHugh ,
Fine Gael party
Teachta Dála (TD) for
Donegal North-East ,
senator .
30 July –
Hubert Rigney , Offaly hurler.
2 August –
Davy FitzGerald ,
Clare hurler.
4 August –
Paul McCarthy , association football player (died 2017).
6 August –
Conor McPherson , playwright and director.
10 August –
Roy Keane ,
Manchester United and
Glasgow Celtic footballer and
Sunderland manager.
17 August –
Anthony Kearns , tenor.
18 August –
Aphex Twin (Richard D. James), electronic music artist.
31 August –
Pádraig Harrington , golfer, winner of
2007 Open Championship .
August –
Brian Whelahan , Offaly hurler.
6 September –
Dolores O'Riordan , rock singer-songwriter with The Cranberries (d. 2018).
7 October –
Johnny Dooley , Offaly hurler, manager.
24 October –
Dervla Kirwan , actress.
30 October –
Stephen Kenny , football player and manager
3 November –
Dylan Moran , comedian, actor, and writer.
22 November –
Kyran Bracken , rugby player
26 November –
James McGarry ,
Kilkenny
hurling goalkeeper.
November –
Brian Lohan , Clare hurler.
25 December –
Noel Hogan , guitarist and songwriter.
Full date unknown
Deaths
2 January –
J. T. O'Farrell , trade union official, served in the
Seanad (Senate) from 1922 to 1936 and 1948–50.
24 January –
St John Ervine , playwright and novelist (born 1883).
28 January –
Edward O'Connell , Cork hurler.
31 March –
Michael Browne ,
Master General of the
Dominicans , Cardinal (born 1887).
1 April –
Kathleen Lonsdale , X-ray crystallographer (born 1903).
May –
Eamon Martin , a founder of
Fianna Éireann and an
Irish Volunteer fighting in the Easter Rising (born 1892).
4 May –
Seamus Elliott , road bicycle racer (born 1934).
10 May –
Archie Heron , trade union organiser.
11 May
15 May –
Tyrone Guthrie , theatrical director (born 1900).
13 June –
Máiréad Ní Ghráda , poet and playwright.
14 June –
Gerard Dillon , artist and painter (born 1916).
14 August –
Shane Leslie , diplomat and writer (born 1885).
15 September –
John Desmond Bernal , scientist (born 1901).
26 September –
Conor Maguire , Chief Justice of Ireland (born 1889).
2 October –
Paddy Ahern , Cork hurler (born 1900).
3 October –
Seán Ó Riada , composer and musician (born 1931).
16 December –
Richard Mulcahy , Chief of Staff, TD, Cabinet minister and former leader of the Fine Gael party (born 1886).
See also
References
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^
"February 25, 1971 — Partial Solar Eclipse — Dublin, Ireland" . TimeAndDate . Retrieved 6 April 2024 .
^
Supplementary Estimates, 1971-72. - Vote 41: Transport and Power Houses of the Oireachtas, 1971-11-25. "The company took delivery of two Boeing 747s (Jumbos) in March, 1971, and they went into service in April and May. The Aerlínte fleet now consists of 6 Boeing 707-320s and 2 Boeing 747s."
^
Aer Lingus On Its Own Flight International, 1971-03-25. "A SECOND 747 will be delivered to Aer Lingus-Irish within the next two weeks to join the first which arrived in Dublin on March 6."
^
Recap: When Led Zeppelin played the National Stadium in Dublin, 1971
^ "IRA claim they sank Royal Navy launch".
The Times . No. 58152. London. 21 April 1971. p. 1.
^ O'Toole, Fintan (2023).
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland . New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation. pp. 212–215.
ISBN
978-1-324-09287-2 .
^
"1971: British troops shoot Londonderry rioters" .
BBC News . 8 July 1971. Retrieved 2 February 2008 .
^
"1971: NI activates internment law" . BBC News. 9 August 1971. Retrieved 2 February 2008 .
^
"1971: Army blasts N Ireland border roads" . BBC News. 13 October 1971. Retrieved 2 February 2008 .
^
"1971: Two women shot at Belfast checkpoint" . BBC News. 23 October 1971. Retrieved 2 February 2008 .
^
"Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971" . Irish Statute Book . Retrieved 24 July 2012 .
^
"1971: Bomb demolishes crowded Belfast pub" . BBC News. 4 December 1971. Retrieved 2 February 2008 .