1952 in Ireland

1952 in Ireland

Events

*January 8 - Peig Sayers travels to Dublin for the first time in 81 years.
*January 10 - An Aer Lingus aircraft crashes in Wales killing twenty passengers and the crew. It is the airline's first fatal crash in its fifteen-year history.
*April 30 - The Adoption Bill makes provision for the adoption of orphans and children aged between six months and seven years born outside wedlock.
*May 11 - In Washington, the House Foreign affairs Committee explains that Ireland's exclusion from Marshall Aid is due to its wartime neutrality.
*May 30 - The Minister for Education, Seán Moylan, announces longer summer holidays for national school children.
*November 24 - The Minister for Defence, Oscar Traynor, presents framed copies of the Proclamation to three printers who had been involved in the production of the original work.
*December 29 - Éamon de Valera arrives back in Dublin after spending four months at an eye clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Arts and literature

Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot" was published in French.

port

Football

*League of Ireland::Winners: St Patrick's Athletic

*FAI Cup::Winners: Dundalk 1 - 1, 3 - 0 Cork Athletic.

Golf

*Irish Open - no tournament held.

Births

January to June

*30 January - Anne Doyle, newsreader.
*10 February - Martin Ferris, former Provisional IRA member, Sinn Féin TD for Kerry North.
*25 February - Seánie O'Leary, Cork hurler.
*3 March - Dermot Morgan, actor and comedian (d.1998).
*18 March - Pat Eddery, former flat racing jockey.
*29 March - John Gilligan, drug smuggler implicated in the murder of Veronica Guerin.
*14 April - Mickey O'Sullivan, former Kerry Gaelic footballer, Limerick manager.
*28 April - Gerald Barry, composer.
*27 June - Ger Power, former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
*June - Tony Killeen, Fianna Fáil TD for Clare, Minister of State.

July to December

*11 July - Tom Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South, Government Chief Whip.
*4 August - Moya Brennan, singer.
*5 August - Louis Walsh, manager in the music industry, and judge on "The X Factor".
*9 August - Dinny Allen, Cork Gaelic footballer.
*25 August - Martin Duffy, filmmaker and writer.
*11 September - Jimmy Deenihan, Fine Gael TD for Kerry North.
*27 September - Liam Aylward, former Fianna Fáil TD, MEP representing East.
*7 October - Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, folk and traditional musician (d.2006).
*22 October - Mick Fairclough, former soccer player.
*1 November - Willie O'Dea, barrister-at-law, lecturer,Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Limerick East, Cabinet Minister.
*21 November - Eamonn Coghlan, four-time Olympian and world championship winning runner.
*28 November - Pat Cox, former Progressive Democrats TD, MEP representing Munster, 5th President of the directly elected European Parliament and television presenter.

Full date unknown

*Patrick Buckley, former priest.
*Ger Canning, Gaelic Athletic Association hurling and football commentator.
*Tim Crowley, Cork hurler.
*Felim Egan, painter.
*John Ellis, former Fianna Fáil TD, Senator.
*John MacKenna, playwright and novelist.
*Michael Mulcahy, painter.
*Brian Murphy, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
*Martin O'Doherty, Cork hurler.
*Maurice Scully, poet and editor.
*Peter Sheridan, playwright, screenwriter and director.
*Noel Synnott, soccer player and manager.

Deaths

*6 February - George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (b. 1895)
*18 February - Ernest Henry Alton, university professor, represented Dublin University in Dáil from 1921 to 1927, represented Dublin University in Seanad from 1938 to 1943.
*27 February - Helena Concannon, Fianna Fáil politician and historian (b.1878).
*21 March - James Perry Goodbody, nominated to the 1922 Seanad and the 1925 Seanad by the President of the Executive Council.
*9 May - P. J. Ruttledge, Sinn Féin, then Fianna Fáil, TD and Cabinet Minister (b.1892).
*23 October - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (b.1857).
*2 November - Maire O'Neill, actress (b.1885).

Full date unknown

*J. J. O'Reilly, Cavan Gaelic footballer (b.1919).


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