1975 in Ireland - Definition

See also: 1974 in Ireland, other events of 1975, 1976 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.

Events

• January 7 - Sinéad Bean de Valera dies in Dublin aged 96.
• January 30 - Charles Haughey is brought back onto the Fianna Fáil front bench.
• February 18 - Aer Lingus hostesses get a new uniform.
• June 18 - Dr Danny O'Hare is made acting director of the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin a day later the governing body meets for the first time.
• July 31 - Three members of the Miami Showband are killed in a UVF ambush as they return froma dance in County Down.
• August 29 - Eamon de Valera dies in Dublin aged 92. His life has spanned the history of the Irish State. He was a leader of the Easter Rising in 1916. He served as Taoiseach for 21 years and President for 14 years. The government announces a day of mourning.
• October 3 - Dutch industrialist Dr. Tiede Herrema, who owns a factory in Limerick, is kidnapped.
• October 12 - Oliver Plunket, the 17th-century Archbishop of Armagh, is canonised by Pope Paul VI in Rome.
• October 21 - Dr. Tiede Herrema is located with his kidnappers in Monasterevin, County Kildare.
• November 18 - The Tiede Herrema kidnap siege ends.
• December 28 - George Best plays a League of Ireland match for Cork Celtic against Drogheda.

Arts and literature

• The Druid theatre company is founded in Galway by Garry Hynes, Mick Lally and Marie Mullen.
• John Ryan's memoir Remembering How We Stood and Paul Durkan's collection of poems O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor are published.

Sports

Births

Deaths

• January 7 - Sinéad de Valera, author.
• February 23 - Ernest Blythe, politician.
• April 28 - Tom Dreaper, horse trainer.
• May 10 - Michael Tierney, former President of University College Dublin.
• May 27 - William Robert Fitzgerald Collis, phsician.
• August 9 - Maurice Gorham, journalist.
• August 10 - Robert Barton, signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921.
• August 29 - Eamon de Valera, Former Taoiseach and President.