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Events from the year1957 in Ireland.

• President:Seán T. O'Kelly
• Taoiseach:
  • John A. Costello (FG) (until 20 March 1957)
  • Éamon de Valera (FF) (from 20 March 1957)
• Tánaiste:
  • William Norton (Lab) (until 20 March 1957)
  • Seán Lemass (FF) (from 20 March 1957)
• Minister for Finance:
  • Gerard Sweetman (FG) (until 20 March 1957)
  • James Ryan (FF) (from 20 March 1957)
• Chief Justice:Conor Maguire
• Dáil:
  • 15th (until 4 February 1957)
  • 16th (from 20 March 1957)
• Seanad:
  • 8th (until 28 March 1957)
  • 9th (from 22 May 1957)

• 1 January –Border Campaign:Seán South andFergal O'Hanlon were killed in anIrish Republican Army (IRA) attack on aRoyal Ulster Constabulary barracks inBrookeborough,County Fermanagh.^[1] TheGovernment of Ireland used the currentOffences Against the State Act to arrest most of the IRA's leadership, including its chief of staff,Seán Cronin.
• 12 January – Over a hundredrepublicans were arrested under theSpecial Powers Act in Northern Ireland.^[2]
• 24 January – SirAlfred Chester Beatty became the first person grantedhonorary citizenship of Ireland.
• 4 February – St. Mary'sChurch of Ireland Cathedral atElphin, County Roscommon, was severely damaged in a violent storm, leading to its abandonment.^[3]
• 3 March –Éamon de Valera told a crowd inCork that aUnited Ireland could be achieved with time and the support of the people.
• 5 March –1957 Irish general election: TheFianna Fáil party under Éamon de Valera returned to power, winning 78 seats. Members of the16th Dáil assembled on 20 March.
• 7 March – APercival Provost aircraft crashed on the lower eastern slope ofTable Mountain,County Wicklow with the loss of one life.^[4]
• 11 March –Prize Bonds were introduced; theBank of Ireland operated the scheme on behalf of theMinister for Finance.
• May–September –Fethard-on-SeaNe Temere boycott: aRoman Catholic priest and some of his parishioners organised a boycott ofProtestant-owned local businesses.^[5]
• 4 July – Following the killing of aRoyal Ulster Constabulary officer, the newGovernment of Ireland introduced wholesale internment without trial for IRA suspects.
• 4 July – TheDáil debated the Fethard-on-SeaNe Temere boycott.
• 22 July – The Gough Monument in thePhoenix Park inDublin was wrecked by an explosion so violent that it was heard all over the city.
• 7 August – A 20-foot high war memorial inLimerick was blown up. It was erected to commemorate British soldiers from Limerick who died inWorld War I.
• 30 September – Last day of operation of 97 miles (155 km) of railway in Northern Ireland (Great Northern Railway (GNR) branches and the entireSligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway) following government instructions.County Fermanagh lost all its lines. The GNR closed a further 84 miles (134 km) of connecting lines in the Republic on October 12.
• 2 October – TheMinister for Health,Seán MacEntee, launched the Voluntary Health Insurance Board.
• 7 October – PresidentSeán T. O'Kelly's country residence, Roundwood House,County Wicklow, was destroyed by fire.
• 10 October – TheWindscale fire began with a fire in a graphite core of areactor at theWindscale Nuclear Power station and reprocessing centre on theCumberland coast ofNorth West England. Years later there were claims that the radiation caused cancers and birth defects inCounty Louth.
• 27 October – The foundation stone ofGalway Cathedral was blessed.
• 1 November – TheSoviet satelliteSputnik was visible over Dublin for the second time in a month.
• November –Border Campaign: The premature explosion of a bomb at a farmhouse in County Louth killed four IRA men and a householder.^[1]
• Undated –Cyril Lord opened a new factory for the production of tufted carpets atDonaghadee,County Down.^[6]

• 13 January –Samuel Beckett'sAll That Fall (set in a fictionalisedFoxrock) was first broadcast (on theBBC Third Programme in the U.K.), withJ. G. Devlin in a leading role.
• 12 May – ThePike Theatre in Dublin staged theTennessee Williams playThe Rose Tattoo. During its short run the theatre was invaded byGardaí (police) and director Alan Simpson was arrested for producing "a lewd entertainment" for a mime of dropping a condom onto the floor.^[7]
• The Bachelors musical group formed as The Harmonichords in Dublin.
• Publication ofTomás de Bhaldraithe'sEnglish-Irish Dictionary.
• Publication ofHeinrich Böll'sIrisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal).

• 19 May –Ireland 1–1England (atDalymount Park).

• 27 June –Philomena Garvey won theBritish Ladies Amateur Golf Championship at Gleneagles.

• 17 January –Colm Burke,Fine GaelLord Mayor of Cork, MEP.
• 22 January –Ray Flynn, Irish-American runner
• 7 February –Regina Joyce, long-distance runner.
• 15 February
  • Dave Langan, association football player.
  • David Stanton,Fine GaelTD forCork East.
• 26 February –Charlie Nelligan,Kerry Gaelic footballer.
• 6 April –Dermot Mac Curtain,Cork hurler.
• 8 April –Richie Power,Kilkenny hurler.
• 23 April –Tommy Quaid,Limerick hurler (died1998).
• 13 March –Patricia McKenna,Green Party politician.
• 7 March –Seán Crowe,Sinn Féin TD forDublin South-West.
• 21 March –Pat Breen,Fine Gael TD forClare.
• 20 May –Dermot Gallagher, association football referee.
• 23 May –Jimmy McShane, singer
• 28 May –Dick O'Hara,Kilkenny hurler.
• 17 June –Philip Chevron, born Philip Ryan, Celtic punk singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013).
• 20 June –Kieran Brennan,Kilkenny hurler andIrish Army general.
• 17 July –Terry Eviston, association football player.
• July –Catherine Connolly, politician.
• 2 August –Ashley Grimes, association football player and coach.
• 7 August –Daire Brehan, actress, broadcaster and barrister (died 2012).
• 28 August –Tom Cashman,Cork hurler.
• 26 September –Finbar Wright, singer.
• 8 October –Martha Kearney, radio journalist.
• 14 October –John Henderson,Kilkenny hurler.
• 16 October –Eoin Liston,Kerry Gaelic footballer.
• 6 November –Siobhán McCarthy, actress.
• 19 November –Jack O'Shea,Kerry Gaelic footballer.
• 24 November –John Minihan, soldier,Progressive DemocratsSeanad Éireann member.
• 12 December –Jon Kenny, comedian (died 2024).
• 17 December –Robbie Gaffney, association football player.
• 25 December –Shane MacGowan, English-born Celtic punk singer-songwriter (died 2023).

Undated

• Desmond Dinan, academic and author.
• Angela Downey,Kilkenny camogie player.
• Shani Mootoo, fiction writer and visual artist.
• Paul Woodfull, writer, actor, comedian and musician

• 1 January –Fergal O'Hanlon,Irish Republican Army member killed withSeán South attacking theRoyal Ulster Constabulary barracks inBrookeborough (born in 1936).
• 1 January –Seán South,IRA leader fatally wounded during an attack on aRoyal Ulster Constabulary barracks inBrookeborough (born in 1929).
• 11 January –Anthony Mulvey, editor andNationalist Party MP (born in 1882).
• 16 February –John Sealy Townsend, mathematical physicist (died in 1868).
• 25 March
  • Ernie O'Malley, prominent officer in theIrish Republican Army during theIrish War of Independence and on anti-Treaty side in theIrish Civil War and a writer (born in 1897).
  • George Townshend, writer, clergyman who converted to theBaháʼí Faith (born in 1876).
• 28 March –Jack B. Yeats, artist (born in 1871).
• 29 March –John J. O'Kelly, politician, author and publisher, president of theGaelic League andSinn Féin (born in 1872).
• 11 April –Freeman Wills Crofts, novelist (born in 1879).
• 23 May –William Meldon, cricketer (born in 1879).
• 26 May –Edward Hutchinson Synge, theoretical physicist (born in 1890)
• 26 June –Colm Gallagher,Fianna Fáil TD forDublin North-Central and boxing referee.
• 1 August –Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer (born in 1867).
• 22 September –Oliver St. John Gogarty, physician, poet and writer (born in 1878).
• 25 October –Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, writer and dramatist (born 1878).
• 9 November –Peter O'Connor, athlete (born in 1872).
• 16 November –Seán Moylan, memberIrish Volunteers,Sinn Féin andFianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister andSeanad Éireann member (born in 1888).
• 6 December –Michael James O'Rourke, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 atHill 70 near Lens, France (born in 1878).
• 21 December –Thomas Sadleir, genealogist (born in 1882).

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