1967 in Ireland

Events

*9 January - Demonstrations by the National Farmers' Association cause major chaos as farm machinery blocks many roads.
*4 April - The Fianna Fáil Party makes a presentation to former Taoiseach Seán Lemass.
*18 April - The Minister for Education, Donagh O'Malley, reveals his plan for a single multi-denominational University of Dublin. This would combine University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.
*1 July - Jacqueline Kennedy goes racing at the Curragh with An Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Mrs. Máirín Lynch.
*4 August - Senator Margaret M. Pearse, sister of Pádraig Pearse and Willie Pearse, the executed 1916 leaders, is 89 today. She is greeted by President de Valera.
*4 September - Ireland's free post-primary school transport scheme begins. CIÉ brings 38,000 students to 350 schools.
*4 November - An Taoiseach Jack Lynch returns to Dublin following talks on the European Community with General Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
*2 December - The poet Patrick Kavanagh is buried in his native Inniskeen, County Monaghan.
*4 December - The first independent computer in this country open at Shannon Airport.
*29 December - The Minister for Labour, Dr. Patrick Hillery, announces details of a new redundancy payments scheme which takes effect from New Year's Day.

Arts and literature

port

*19 November - Jimmy O'Connor scores the world's fastest ever hat-trick in a first-class match when he scored three goals in 2 minutes and 13 seconds (some sources dispute this, and claim the actual time was 2 minutes and 14 seconds) for Shelbourne against Bohemians in a League of Ireland match at Dalymount Park.

Births

*22 January - Eleanor McEvoy, singer songwriter.
*1 March - Justin Benson, cricketer.
*1 March - Ann Gallagher, former Labour Party politician.
*17 March - Angus Dunlop, cricketer.
*16 May - Barry Andrews, Fianna Fáil politician, TD for Dún Laoghaire.
*19 May - Geraldine Somerville, actress.
*26 May - Philip Treacy, hat designer.
*July - Anne Marie Forrest, author.
*4 September - Cathal Casey, Cork hurler.
*15 October - Lawrence Roche, road racing cyclist.

Full date unknown

*John Fitzgibbon, Cork hurler.
*Mark Foley, Cork hurler.
*Martin Hanamy, Offaly hurler.
*Gary Kirby, former Limerick hurler.
*Susan McKeown, folk singer.
*Willie O'Connor, former Kilkenny hurler.
*Brian Smyth, painter.
*Liam Twomey, doctor, former Fine Gael TD, Senator.

Deaths

*1 January - Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedhael and later Fine Gael (b.1893).
*28 January - Helena Moloney, fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and was first woman president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (b.1884).
*16 March - Thomas MacGreevy, poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland (b.1893).
*1 April - Jane Wyse Power, member of the Seanad from 1922 to 1936.
*22 April - Walter Macken, novelist, dramatist and actor (b.1915).
*4 August - Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, peer and soldier (b.1888).
*14 September - Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, businessman, politician and philanthropist, Chancellor University of Dublin (b.1874).
*30 November - Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist (b.1904).
*4 December - Michael Riordan, San Francisco Police Department Chief (b.1889).
*18 December - James Everett, Irish Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for "Battle of Baltinglass", 44 years service as a TD (b.1894).
*18 December - Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer (b.1895).
*28 December - John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedhael and Fine Gael TD (b.1881).

Full date unknown

*Sam English, soccer player (b.1908).
*Mary Devenport O'Neill, poet and dramatist (b.1879).