1965 in Ireland

Events

*January 14 - An Taoiseach Seán Lemass travels to Belfast for an historic meeting with the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill.
*January 21 - Nationalist leader Eddie McAteer visits An Taoiseach Seán Lemass in Dublin.
*February 28 - Roger Casement is honoured with a state funeral in Dublin.
*March 7 - Changes to the Liturgy of the Mass are introduced throughout the country today. Mass is said in the vernacular for the first time.
*March 18 - The Northern Minister for Agriculture, Harry West attends a meeting with his Southern counterpart, Charles Haughey, in Dublin.
*April 18 - The Gaelic Athletic Association Congress in Dublin decides that the ban on foreign games is to stay in place.
*April 21 - James Dillon resigns as leader of Fine Gael. Liam Cosgrave is the new leader.
*May 24 - The first car ferry service between Rosslare, County Wexford and Fishguard, Wales officially opens.
*June 13 - Huge crowds turn out at Drumcliffe Churchyard, County Sligo to honour the poet W.B. Yeats on the centenary of his birth.
*July 8 - An Taoiseach Seán Lemass is conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Law at Trinity College Dublin.
*November 17 - The remains of W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council are removed to a church in Rathfarnham, Dublin.

Arts and literature

cience

*The Young Scientist Exhibition was first held.

ports

Births

January to June

*22 January - Denis Walsh, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler.
*11 February - Tom Bolger, teacher.
*22 February - Kieren Fallon, champion flat racing jockey.
*10 March - Damien Hancock, soccer referee.
*26 March - John McDonnell, soccer player and manager.
*14 May - Eoin Colfer, author.
*28 May - Mary Coughlan, Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for Donegal South West
*22 June - Enda McCallion, film director.
*June - Jim Cashman, Cork hurler.

July to December

*30 July - Declan Carr, Tipperary hurler.
*8 October - Ardal O'Hanlon, comedian, actor and writer.
*28 October - Robbie Robinson, drummer.
*31 October - Denis Irwin, soccer player.
*10 November - Sean Hughes, comedian.
*20 November - Diarmuid Wilson, Fianna Fáil Senator.

Full date unknown

*Joe Cooney, Galway hurler.
*Mike McCormack, novelist.
*Keith Ridgway, writer.

Deaths

January to June

*6 February - Tom Jameson, cricketer (b.1892).
*15 February - Sam Thompson, playwright (b.1916).
*10 April - James Duhig, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane (b.1873).
*12 June - Arthur Cox, solicitor, priest, nominated to 8th Seanad by Taoiseach in 1954.
*22 June - Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (b.1881).

July to December

*28 August - Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven, peer (b.1887).
*26 September - James Fitzmaurice, pilot and aviation pioneer (b.1898).
*12 November - Charles McCausland, cricketer (b.1898).
*16 November - W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (b.1880).
*30 December - Henry George Farmer, musicologist (b.1882).

Full date unknown

*Patrick Giles, Fine Gael TD (b.1899).
*Jim Hurley, veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler (b.1902).
*Francis MacManus, novelist (b.1909).
*Seán Óg Murphy, Cork hurler, Gaelic Athletic Association administrator (b.1897).
*Jimmy O'Dea, comedian (b.1899).