1953 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1953 in Ireland.
Contents
Incumbents
- President: Sean T. O'Kelly (Fianna Fáil)
- Taoiseach: Éamon de Valera (Fianna Fáil)
Events
- 18 January - Sinn Féin decides to contest all 12 constituencies in the next Westminster elections in Northern Ireland.
- 15 March - Up to 10,000 civil servants march down O'Connell Street in Dublin demanding a just wage.
- 16 March - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. asks the American Congress to support a United Ireland.
- 27 April - Maud Gonne MacBride dies at her home in Dublin aged 88.
- 1 May - The BBC brings into service the first television transmitter in Ireland, at Glencairn (Belfast).[1]
- 3 June - 500 unemployed men march at Kildare Street demanding employment not dole.
- 6 July - 1,000 unemployed people sit on O'Connell Bridge for 15 minutes in protest.
- 2 August - Murlough Bay in the Antrim Glens is chosen as the future grave of Roger Casement. Taoiseach Éamon de Valera calls for the return of his remains.
- 29 August - Kilmainham Gaol is to be preserved as a national monument.
- 30 August - New synagogue dedicated at Terenure in Dublin (designed by Wilfrid Cantwell).[2]
- 1 September - Great Northern Railway sold to governments of the Republic and Northern Ireland and managed by a joint board.
- 21 September - The Irish Ploughing Team leaves Dublin for the World Ploughing Championships in Canada.
- 20 October - Opening of Busáras in Dublin[1] (designed by Michael Scott), CIÉ's country bus station and the first significant international style building in Ireland.
- 28 October - Three of Dáil Éireann's Independent TDs become members of Fianna Fáil.
- 30 October - Standish Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort, purchases Bunratty Castle to restore it.
- 17 November - Great Blasket Island is depopulated.
- 18 December - The Censorship Board bans almost 100 publications on the grounds that they are indecent or obscene.
Arts and literature
- 5 January - Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot has its first public stage première in French as En attendant Godot in Paris.[1] His novel The Unnamable is also published in French this year.
- 5–26 April - First An Tóstal festivals of national culture[1] (devised by Seán Lemass) held.
- 8 August - Chester Beatty Library in Dublin opens to the public.[1]
- Writer Brian O'Nolan is obliged to retire from his senior post in the Civil Service.[3]
Sport
Football
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- Winners: Shelbourne
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- Winners: Cork Athletic 2 - 2, 2 - 1 Evergreen United.
Golf
- Irish Open is won by Eric Brown (Scotland).
Births
January to June
- 6 January - Noel Dempsey, Fianna Fáil TD for Meath West and Minister for Transport.
- 4 February - James Stirling, Irish physicist and academic
- 12 February - Des Smyth, golfer.
- 24 February - Eoin Ryan, Fianna Fáil MEP for Dublin and former TD.
- 5 March - Brian Kerr, soccer manager, former Republic of Ireland national side manager.
- 6 March - James Bannon, former Senator, Fine Gael TD for Longford–Westmeath.
- 11 March - Derek Daly, motor racing driver.
- 11 March - Mary Harney, former Tánaiste and leader of the Progressive Democrats.
- 15 March - Richard Bruton, Deputy Leader of Fine Gael, TD for Dublin North–Central.
- 31 March - Breeda Moynihan-Cronin, former Labour Party (Ireland) TD.
- 28 April - Paul Darragh, showjumper (died 2005).
- 16 May - Pierce Brosnan, actor.
- 30 May - Colm Meaney, actor.
- 31 May - Jerry Kiernan, long-distance runner
- 7 June - Kathleen Lynch, Labour Party TD for Cork North–Central.
- 12 June - John Moloney, Fianna Fáil TD for Laois–Offaly.
- 18 June - Neil O'Donoghue, American football placekicker.
July to December
- 7 July - Jim Glennon, former Fianna Fáil politician and TD.
- 29 July - Frank McGuinness, playwright, translator and poet.
- 19 August - Tom Parlon, President of the IFA (1997–2001), Progressive Democrat TD representing Laois–Offaly.
- 1 September - Catherine Murphy, former Independent TD.
- 18 September - Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, bank official, Sinn Féin TD representing Cavan–Monaghan.
- 20 September - Joe Waters, former soccer player.
- 23 September - Paudge Connolly, former independent TD.
- 26 September - Dolores Keane, singer and musician.
- 11 November - Jimmy Holmes, soccer player.
- 26 November - Marian Harkin, Member of the European Parliament representing North-West, Independent Teachta Dála representing Sligo–Leitrim.
- 3 December - Nickey Brennan, former Kilkenny hurler, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
Full date unknown
- Dessie Ellis, Sinn Féin councillor in Dublin City Council, former IRA prisoner, first person extradited to the United Kingdom under the 1987 Extradition Act.
- Mary Flaherty, Fine Gael TD and junior minister.
- Hugo Hamilton, writer.
- Rita Kelly, poet.
- Ger Loughnane, Clare hurler, manager of Galway hurling team.
- Tom McCormack, Kilkenny hurler.
- Sheila O'Donnell, architect.
Deaths
- 11 February - Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee, Labour MP in the United Kingdom (born 1871).
- 22 February - John Caffrey, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 near La Brique, France (born 1891).
- 13 April - Alice Milligan, nationalist poet and author (born 1865).
- 15 April - John Dignan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert (born 1880).
- 17 April - Tom Sharkey, boxer (born 1873).
- 3 June - Philip Graves, journalist and writer (born 1876).
- 14 July - Frank Fahy, Sinn Féin MP and later Fianna Fáil TD, member of 1st Dáil, Ceann Comhairle (born 1880).
- 23 July - Maude Delap, marine biologist (born 1866).
- 12 September - James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, Unionist politician and first Governor of Northern Ireland (born 1869).
- 17 October - Jack Rochford, Kilkenny hurler (born 1882).
- 30 October - John Counihan, farmer and salesmaster, Independent member of 1922 Seanad (born 1879).
- 1 November - Thomas F. O'Higgins, Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1890).
- 25 December - Patsy Donovan, Major League Baseball player and manager (born 1865).
Full date unknown
- T. F. O'Rahilly, linguist and Irish language scholar (born 1883).
