- 1954 in Ireland
Events
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January 11 - The Irish Council of the European Movement is formed inDublin .
*January 19 - The government announces that the new Cork Airport will be built at Ballygarvan, four miles south of the city.
*February 19 - CaptainHenry Harrison , the last surviving member of the party led byCharles Stewart Parnell , dies aged 87.
*April 20 -Michael Manning , aged 25, is executed inMountjoy Prison . he is the last person to be judicially executed in the State.
*May 5 - At its headquarters in Kingsbridge,CIÉ signs a £4.75 million contract to replace its steam trains with diesel locomotives.
*May 16 - 30,000 march throughDublin city in a hugeMarian Year procession. It is the city's greatest display of Catholic faith since the International Eucharistic Congress since1932 .
*May 18 -Fianna Fáil lose four seats in the general election. The second inter-party government underJohn A. Costello comes to power.
*June 28 -Alfie Byrne is electedLord Mayor of Dublin for the tenth time.
*July 5 - Dublin Corporation decides that Nelson's Pillar onO'Connell Street will not be removed.
*September 5 - 27 people die whenKLM Flight 633 plane crashes two minutes after leavingShannon Airport .
*September 8 -Marian College Dublin opened for the first time.
*October 16 - A marble plaque is unveiled at Westland Row,Dublin to mark the centenary of the birth ofOscar Wilde .Arts and literature
port
Football
*League of Ireland::Winners: Shamrock Rovers
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FAI Cup ::Winners: Drumcondra 1 - 0 St Patrick's Athletic.Births
January to June
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3 January -Fintan Cullen , art historian and writer.
*10 January -Bairbre de Brún ,Sinn Féin MEP and first Sinn Féin politician to representNorthern Ireland in theEuropean Parliament .
*15 Aprill -Michael Willis , First Ever Escapee From Crumlin Road Jail IRA
*29 April -Gavan O'Herlihy , actor.
*April -Róisín Shortall ,Irish Labour Party TD for Dublin North West.
*8 March -Dermot Keely , soccer player and manager.
*30 April -Gerry Daly , soccer player.
*13 May - Johnny Logan, singer and songwriter.
*25 May -Daragh O'Malley , actor.July to December
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6 July -Tim Kennelly , formerGaelic football er with Kerry (d.2005).
*11 July -Liam Thomas Quinn , priest and teacher.
*23 July - Arthur Morgan, formerProvisional Irish Republican Army prisoner,Sinn Féin TD for Louth.
*28 July -Mikey Sheehy , former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
*22 August -Jimmy Barry-Murphy , hurler and footballer with Cork.
*8 September -Áine Brady ,Fianna Fáil TD for Kildare North.
*8 October - Tony Ward, former international rugby player and sports journalist.
*16 October -Noel Slevin , journalist.
*2 November -Martin Cullen ,Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Waterford and Cabinet Minister.
*11 December -Noel Lane , Galway hurler and manager.
*17 December -Sile de Valera ,Fianna Fáil TD representing Clare, Minister and MEP.Full date unknown
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December -John Fenton , Cork hurler.
*George Birmingham , formerFine Gael politician.
*Brian Cody , former Kilkenny hurler, manager.
*Pat Delaney, Offaly hurler.
*Catherine Dunne , author.
*Ger Fennelly , former Kilkenny hurler.
*Billy Fitzpatrick , former Kilkenny hurler.
*Paddy Glackin , fiddle player.
*Ger Henderson , former Kilkenny hurler.
*Sean O'Callaghan , formerProvisional Irish Republican Army member andGarda Síochána informer .
*Harry O'Donoghue , musician and songwriter.
*Bertie Óg Murphy , Cork hurler and manager.
*Francis Martin O'Donnell ,United Nations official.
*Eugene Sheehy , Group Chief Executive ofAllied Irish Bank Plc.Deaths
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20 April - Michael Manning, carter, convicted of murder and hanged, last person executed in theRepublic of Ireland .
*1 May -James Macmahon , civil servant and businessman,Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (b.1865).
*20 May -Roger Sweetman , barrister-at-law, member of1st Dáil representing North Wexford .
*8 July - George Gardiner, boxer (b.1877).
*16 September - James Douglas, member of the1922 Seanad .
*21 October -Thomas V. Honan , merchant,Fianna Fáil member of theSeanad .Full date unknown
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Elinor Darwin , engraver and painter (b.1871).
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