1984 in Ireland

Events

*January 1 - Galway City begins celebrations marking its mayoral status granted by King Richard III in 1484.
*January 10 - Seán MacEntee, founder member of Fianna Fáil and former Tánaiste, dies aged 94. He was the last surviving member of the First Dáil.
*January 30 - Luke Kelly of "the Dubliners" dies aged 43.
*January 31 - Ann Lovett, aged 15, dies after giving birth to a baby boy in a grotto in Granard, County Longford.
*March 14 - Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams is shot and wounded in Belfast.
*May 2 - The New Ireland Forum publishes its report presenting three possibilities for discussion: a unitary Irish state, a federal/confederal state and joint sovereignty.
*May 22 - The village of Ballyporeen, County Tipperary prepares for the visit of US President Ronald Reagan.
*June 3 - 10,000 people take part in an anti-Reagan march in Dublin.
*June 4 - President Reagan addresses a joint session of the houses of the Oireachtas.
*June 18 - European Parliament elections are held in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
*July 14 - Columban missionary Fr Niall O'Brien, who was imprisoned in the Philippines, is released.
*July 17 - Some workers in Dunnes Stores, Henry Street, Dublin refuse to handle South African produce as a protest against apartheid.
*July 23 - The DART rail service between Howth and Bray is introduced.
*September 28 - The Dublin telephone system collapsed due to the network suffering overload as a result of a phone in competition on one of the illegal radio stations.
*October 1 - The University of Ulster is presented with a Royal Charter by Elizabeth II.
*October 5 - In Dublin women workers in Dunnes Stores, who have been on strike for the past 11 weeks in support of a dispute over the handling of South African fruit, begin a sit-in at the store.
*October 12 - The IRA kills five people in a bomb attack at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the Conservative Party conference.
*14 November: Irish Shipping Limited placed into liquidation
*November 8 - RTÉ's first newsreader, Charles Mitchel, reads his last news bulletin.
*December 2 - European Economic Community heads of government visit President Hillery and Mrs Hillery at Áras an Uachtaráin.
*December 7 - The most sophisticated naval vessel ever built in this country, the £25 million "LÉ Eithne" is commissioned at the Haulbowline naval base.

Arts and literature

port

Golf

*Carroll's Irish Open is won by Bernhard Langer (West Germany).

Births

January to June

*2 January - Denis Behan, soccer player.
*6 January - Stephen Elliott, soccer player.
*10 January - Alan McCormack, soccer player.
*10 February - John Fitzgerald, soccer player.
*22 February - Tommy Bowe, international rugby player.
*4 March - Kevin O'Brien, cricketer.
*8 March - Nora Jane Noone, actress.
*22 March - Aidan Collins, soccer player.
*4 April - Willie O'Dwyer, Kilkenny hurler.
*13 May - Mark O'Brien, soccer player.
*11 June - Andy Lee, boxer.

July to December

*2 July - Ger O'Brien, soccer player.
*5 July - Paul Keegan, soccer player.
*21 August - Conor Kenna, soccer player.
*16 September - Robbie Clarke, soccer player.
*2 October - Derek Pender, soccer player.
*26 October - Martin Burke, actor and voice actor.
*19 November - Stephen Bradley, soccer player.
*19 December - Ruaidhri Lennon, artist.
*31 December - Anthony Flood, soccer player.

Full date unknown

*David Collins, Galway hurler.
*Bryan Cullen, Dublin Gaelic footballer.
*Pamela Fitzgerald, camogie player.
*Kevin Hartnett, Cork hurler.
*Damien Hayes, Galway hurler.
*Stephen Hiney, Dublin hurler.
*Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

January to June

*1 January - Tarlach Ó Raifeartaigh, educationalist.
*10 January - Seán MacEntee, Fianna Fáil TD and Tánaiste from 1959 to 1965 (b.1889).
*24 January - Bernard Cowen, Fianna Fáil TD and Minister of State (b.1932).
*30 January - Luke Kelly, singer, folk musician and member of the band The Dubliners (b.1940).
*3 March - Rinty Monaghan, world flyweight boxing championship (b.1920).
*19 March - Charlie Ware, 83, Waterford hurler.
*24 March - Fintan Kennedy, former General President of IT&GWU, member of the Seanad from 1969 to 1981.
*6 April - Jimmy Kennedy, songwriter (b.(1902).
*26 April - Kathleen Behan, mother of the Behans.
*June - Alec Mackie, soccer player (b.1903).

July to December

*21 July - Paddy Grace, former Kilkenny hurler).
*8 August - Denis Johnston, dramatist (b.1901).
*13 August - Jack Lawrence, cricketer (b.1904).
*7 September - Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short story writer (b.1896).
*15 September - Charles Lynch, pianist (b.1906).

Full date unknown

*Theodore William Moody, historian (b.1907).
*William Bedell Stanford, classical scholar and senator (b.1911).