1958 in Ireland

Events

*February 6 - Dublin's Liam Whelan is among the dead when a plane carrying the Manchester United team crashes in Munich.
*March 18 - An Taoiseach Éamon de Valera says he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.
*March 20 - Work begins on the £80,000 restoration of the State rooms at Dublin Castle.
*May 10 - The Independent TD, John Murphy, resigns in protest at the indifference of the main political parties to the plight of the unemployed.
*May 12 - Ardmore Studios is opened by Seán Lemass.
*May 22 - The Minister for Education, Jack Lynch, tells the Dáil that the ruling requiring women teachers to retire on marriage is to be revoked.
*July 25 - £100 damages are awarded to a nine-year old who was beaten by his teacher in a national school.
*July 28 - The Carlisle Monument, an eight foot bronze statue in the Phoenix Park, is blown up in the early hours.
*August 6 - Australian athlete Herb Elliott shatters the world record for the mile at Santry Stadium, recording a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds.
*August 8 - The US Embassy in Merrion Square displays plans for a new embassy in Dublin.
*September 8 - Pan Am's Boeing 707 becomes the first jetliner to touch down on European soil at Shannon Airport.
*October 29 - The government announces that the ending of the proportional representation method of voting is to be put to the people in a referendum.
*November 4 - In the Vatican, An Taoiseach Éamon de Valera attends the four-hour coronation of Pope John XXIII.
*November 12 - Brendan Behan's "Borstal Boy" is banned by the Censorship of Publications Board.
*December 31 - The Harcourt Street Line, a railway service serving Dundrum, Foxrock and points to Bray closes

Arts and literature

ports

* Football World Cup:*Group stage::*Northern Ireland 1-1 Czechoslovakia ::*Northern Ireland 1-1 Argentina ::*Northern Ireland 1-1 West Germany:::Northern Ireland enter group play off stage the World Cup::*Northern Ireland 2-1 Czechoslovakia AET:::Northern Ireland qualify for the quarter final stage of the World Cup::*Northern Ireland 0-4 France:::Northern Ireland are knocked out at the quarter final stage of the World Cup: The Republic of Ireland did not qualify for the 1958 world cup

Births

January to June

*1 January - Liam Fennelly, former Kilkenny hurler.
*1 February - Seán Fleming, Fianna Fáil TD for Laois-Offaly.
*19 April - Denis O'Brien, entrepreneur.
*30 April - James Hewitt, soldier and lover of Diana, Princess of Wales.
*6 May - Tommy Byrne, former motor racing driver.
*6 May - Ivor Callely, Fianna Fáil politician, member of the 23rd Seanad Éireann, former TD and Minister of State.
*8 May - Roddy Doyle, novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.
*11 May - Conor Hayes, Galway hurler and manager.
*2 June - John Buckley, former Cork hurler.

July to December

*5 July - Veronica Guerin, journalist, murdered by drug dealers (d.1996).
*10 July - Fiona Shaw, actress.
*11 July - Martin Doherty, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
*10 September - Siobhan Fahey, musician.
*18 September - John Aldridge, former Irish international soccer player.
*11 November - John Devine, soccer player.
*16 September - Maura O'Connell, singer.
*21 November - Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of the Ireland national rugby union team.

Full date unknown

*Synan Braddish, soccer player.
*Michael Flatley, dancer.
*Aidan Fogarty, Offaly hurler.
*Noel Hill, concertina player.
*Michael Lyster, RTE sports broadcaster.
*Fintan O'Toole, journalist and drama critic.
*Paddy Prendergast, former Kilkenny hurler.
*Paul Woodfull, writer, actor, comedian and musician.

Deaths

*1 January - Richard Hayes, doctor and Sinn Féin MP.
*17 January - Michael Donohoe, Democrat U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (b.1864).
*24 March - Seamus O'Sullivan, poet and editor (b.1879).
*29 March - Jimmy Archer, Major League baseball player (b.1883).
*6 July - John Lymbrick Esmonde, soldier, Fine Gael TD (b.1893).
*13 August - James Lennon, member of 1st Dáil representing the County Carlow constituency.
*24 August - Paul Henry, artist (b.1876).
*15 October - Lennox Robinson, dramatist, poet and theatre director and producer (b.1886).
*2 December - Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (b.1892).
*19 December - Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (b.1868).

Full date unknown

*Dorothy Macardle, author and historian (b.1889).
*Peig Sayers, writer and seanachaí (b.1873).
*Dick Walsh, Kilkenny hurler (b.1878).