1951 in Ireland

Events

*February 2 - Éamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
*April 11 - Minister for Health Dr. Noel Browne resigns and his Mother and Child Scheme is overturned.
*April 19 - The Northern Ireland Attorney-General, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, says that "Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth."
*May 24 - Gardaí exchange shots with two men after they throw a bomb at the British Embassy in Dublin.
*June 8 - Jack Doyle defeats America's 'Beer Baron' Two-Ton Tony Gelanto at Tolka Park.
*June 10 - Justice George Gavan Duffy, one of the signatories of the Treaty in 1921, dies in Dublin.
*June 13 - Éamon de Valera becomes Taoiseach with one of the smallest majorities on record 74-69.
*July 1 - An Taoiseach Éamon de Valera pays his first visit to Derry in 25 years.
*July 18 - The Abbey Theatre in Dublin is burnt to the ground.
*November 15 - The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded jointly to Professor Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin and Sir John Cockcroft.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*League of Ireland::Winners: Cork Athletic

*FAI Cup::Winners: Transport 1 - 1, 1 - 0 Shelbourne.

Golf

*Irish Open - no tournament held.

Births

January to March

*4 January - Paddy Roche, soccer player.
*25 January - M. J. Nolan, Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow-Kilkenny and former Senator.
*27 January - Brian Downey, drummer.
*4 February - Patrick Bergin, actor.
*6 February - Margo, singer.
*14 February - Alan Shatter, Fine Gael TD for Dublin South.
*16 March - John Egan, former Dublin GAA County Chairman (d.2007).
*25 March - Gerard Murphy, Fine Gael TD representing Cork North West.
*March - J. P. McManus, businessman and racehorse owner.

April to June

*4 April - Alan Hughes, cricketer.
*24 April - Enda Kenny, current leader of Fine Gael, TD for Mayo.
*1 May - Michael McDowell, founding member of Progressive Democrats, former TD, Cabinet Minister, and Attorney-General.
*21 May - Ray O'Brien, soccer player.
*26 May - Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, former Fine Gael TD, councillor.
*6 June - Frank Fahey, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway West.
*12 June - Nóirín Ní Riain, singer, musician, writer, theologian.
*27 June - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland.

July to December

*July - Anne Colley, former Progressive Democrats politician.
*30 August - Dana Rosemary Scallon, Eurovision Song Contest winner and former MEP.
*12 September - Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil.
*5 October - Bob Geldof, singer, songwriter and humanitarian.
*18 December - Noel Treacy, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East.
*30 December - Gay Mitchell, TD representing Dublin South Central, MEP for Dublin.

Full date unknown

*John Aimers, educator and Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada.
*Darina Allen, chef and television personality.
*Adrian Hardiman, justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.
*Geraldine Kennedy, journalist, politician and first female editor of "The Irish Times".
*Joe McKenna, former Limerick hurler and manager.
*Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, singer.

Deaths

January to June

*9 January - John Aston, cricketer (b.1882).
*17 January - Alexander Haslett, independent TD (b.1883).
*18 January - Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer (b.1867).
*26 January - Thomas Houghton, Anglican Clergyman and editor of the Gospel Magazine (b.1859).
*18 March - Thomas Foran, trade union official, continuous membership of the Seanad from 1922 to 1948.
*27 March - James Geoghegan, Fianna Fáil TD, Minister for Justice, Attorney General of Ireland and Justice of the Supreme Court (b.1886).
*29 March - Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta, Canada (b.1869).
*10 April - Nora Barnacle, lover, companion, inspiration and wife of James Joyce (b.1884).
*12 April - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (b.1863).
*19 May - Frederick Barton Maurice, soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the British Legion in 1920 (b.1871).
*10 June - George Gavan Duffy, barrister, Sinn Féin MP (b.1882).
*21 June - Eugene O'Mahoney, museum curator and entomologist (b.1899).

July to December

*24 July - Paddy Moore, soccer player (b.1910).
*16 August - Gus Kelly, cricketer (b.1877).
*17 August - Joseph Warwick Bigger, professor, member of the Dublin University panel in the Seanad from 1944 to 1951.
*25 August - John J. McGrath, Democrat U.S. Representative from California (b.1872).
*27 November - George Meldon, cricketer (b.1885).

Full date unknown

*Margot Ruddock, actress, poet and singer (b.1907).