4 February – British police discovered an IRA bomb factory in
Liverpool.
10 February – The three IRA terrorists involved in the 1975
Balcombe Street Siege in London were sentenced to
life imprisonment on six charges of murder.
21 February – A crater on the planet
Mercury was named after the Irish poet
W. B. Yeats.
10 September – Irish horses were prevented from entering the United States because of an outbreak of
venereal disease in Irish, British and French horses.[2][3]
18 September – In
Ennis, County Clare, the
Christian Brothers celebrated their 150th anniversary.
3 October –
Dunsink Observatory near
Finglas was badly damaged by fire. Rubble removed to the nearby municipal dump included valuable
Apollo 11Moon rock fragments donated to Ireland by the American government.[4][5]
22 October – A new
£1 note was circulated, a green banknote depicting the mythical
Queen Maeve of
Connacht.