1975 in Ireland

Events

*January 7 - Sinéad Bean de Valera dies in Dublin aged 96.
*January 30 - Charles Haughey is brought back onto the Fianna Fáil front bench.
*February 18 - Aer Lingus hostesses get a new uniform.
*April 17 - Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and Our Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort become recognised colleges of the National University of Ireland.
*June 18 - Dr Danny O'Hare is made acting director of the National 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 a Ulster Volunteer Force attack as they return from a dance in County Down.
*August 29 - Éamon de Valera dies in Dublin aged 92. His life has spanned the history of the Irish State. He was a leader of the Easter Rising in 1916. He served as Taoiseach 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 in Limerick, is kidnapped.
*October 12 - Oliver Plunkett, the 17th-century Archbishop of Armagh, is canonised by Pope Paul VI in Rome.
*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 by Garry Hynes, Mick Lally and Marie Mullen.
* John Ryan's memoir "Remembering How We Stood" and Paul 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

*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

*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

*7 January - Sinéad de Valera, writer and wife of third President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera (b.1878).
*23 February - Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (b.1889).
*27 February - John Vincent Holland, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Guillemont, 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 of Seanad Éireann and President of University 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

*31 July - Dan "Sandow" O'Donovan, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish 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, former Taoiseach 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 of Angela Lansbury (b.1895).
*14 December - George Harman, cricketer and rugby player (b.1874).