- 1975 in Ireland
Events
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January 7 - Sinéad Bean de Valera dies inDublin aged 96.
*January 30 -Charles Haughey is brought back onto theFianna Fáil front bench.
*February 18 -Aer Lingus hostesses get a new uniform.
*April 17 -Mary Immaculate College, Limerick andOur Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort become recognised colleges of theNational University of Ireland .
*June 18 - Dr Danny O'Hare is made acting director of theNational Institute for Higher Education, Dublin a day later the governing body meets for the first time.
*July 31 - Three members of the "Miami Showband" are killed in aUlster Volunteer Force attack as they return from a dance inCounty Down .
*August 29 -Éamon de Valera dies inDublin aged 92. His life has spanned the history of the Irish State. He was a leader of theEaster Rising in1916 . He served asTaoiseach for 21 years and President for 14 years. The government announces a day of mourning.
*October 3 - Dutch industrialist Dr.Tiede Herrema , who owns a factory inLimerick , is kidnapped.
*October 12 -Oliver Plunkett , the 17th-century Archbishop of Armagh, is canonised byPope Paul VI inRome .
*October 21 - Dr. Tiede Herrema is located with his kidnappers in Monasterevin,County Kildare .
*November 18 - The Tiede Herrema kidnap siege ends.
*December 28 -George Best plays a League of Ireland match for Cork Celtic against Drogheda.Arts and literature
* The Druid theatre company is founded in
Galway byGarry Hynes ,Mick Lally andMarie Mullen .
*John Ryan 's memoir "Remembering How We Stood " andPaul Durkan 's collection of poems "O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor " are published.port
Golf
*Carroll's Irish Open is won by
Christy O'Connor Jnr (Ireland ).Births
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1 January -Lorraine Pilkington , actress.
*12 February -Andrew Myler , soccer player.
*24 February - David Gill, economist.
*17 April - Mark Foley, Limerick hurler.
*25 April -Dara Ó Cinnéide , Kerry Gaelic footballer.
*6 August -Willie Boland , soccer player.
*28 August -Gareth Farrelly , soccer player.
*15 September -Owen Butler , cricketer.
*2 October -Girvan Dempsey , rugby player.
*7 November -Ollie Moran , Limerick hurler.
*16 December - Graham Lee,National Hunt jockey .
*20 December -Graham Hopkins , drummer.Full date unknown
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Allan Cavanagh , cartoonist and caricaturist.
*David Kitt , musician.
*Adrian James Martyn , historical writer.
*Pat Mulcahy , Cork hurler.
*Hugh O'Conor , actor.
*David O'Doherty , comedian.
*Sarah O'Flaherty , television presenter.Deaths
January to June
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7 January -Sinéad de Valera , writer and wife of thirdPresident of Ireland ,Éamon de Valera (b.1878).
*23 February -Ernest Blythe , writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (b.1889).
*27 February -John Vincent Holland , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 atGuillemont ,France (b.1889).
*21 April -James Kempster , cricketer (b.1892).
*23 April -Michael Carty ,Fianna Fáil TD (b.1916).
*28 April -Tom Dreaper , horse trainer.
*29 April -Arthur Blair-White , cricketer (b.1891).
*10 May - Michael Tierney,Cumann na nGaedhael TD, member ofSeanad Éireann and President ofUniversity College Dublin (b.1894).
*27 May -William Robert Fitzgerald Collis , physician and writer (b.1900).
*24 June -Frank MacDermot , barrister, soldier, banker and politician (b.1886).July to December
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31 July -Dan "Sandow" O'Donovan ,Irish Republican Army member during theIrish War of Independence (b. c1895).
*9 August -Maurice Gorham , journalist and broadcasting executive (b.1902).
*10 August -Robert Barton ,Sinn Féin MP, Cabinet Minister and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (b.1881).
*29 August -Eamon de Valera , formerTaoiseach and President (b.1882).
*2 October -Seamus Murphy , sculptor (b.1907).
*25 October -Padraig Marrinan , artist (b.1906).
*26 October -William Teeling , author, traveller and UK politician (b.1903).
*25 November -Moyna Macgill , stage and film actress, mother ofAngela Lansbury (b.1895).
*14 December -George Harman , cricketer and rugby player (b.1874).
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