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1961
in
Ireland
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See also:1961 in Northern Ireland
Other events of 1961
List of years in Ireland

Events in the year1961 in Ireland.

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Events

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January

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  • 6 January – Lieutenant-GeneralSeán Mac Eoin leftDublin for theCongo to take up his new post as General Commanding Officer of theUnited Nations.
  • 20 January –John F. Kennedy became President of the United States, the first of Irish-Catholic descent.
  • 27 January – Laid-up tankerTrigonosemus broke free from its moorings during a gale inLough Swilly.

April

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  • 9 April – The national census showed thatCounty Cork's population had reached an all-time low, with just 330,000 (in the late 1950s it was 336,000).

June

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September

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October

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November

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  • November – Minister for JusticeCharles Haughey established military courts which handed down long prison sentences to convictedIrish Republican Army men.
  • 10 November – TheGuinness shipLady Gwendolen rammed and sank theFreshfield, anchored in fog on theRiver Mersey in Liverpool.

December

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  • 20 December – The lastlegal execution in Ireland, ofRobert McGladdery for murder, occurred inBelfast, Northern Ireland.
  • 31 December – Ireland's first television channel,Telefís Éireann, commenced broadcasting as President de Valera inaugurated the new service. The station's first broadcast was a new year countdown with celebrations at theGresham Hotel in Dublin, relayed from the transmitter onKippure mountain.

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  • The lastIrish Sea sail-using cargo vessel (and the last sail ship to trade on the River Mersey in Liverpool), theArklow auxiliaryschoonerDe Wadden, ceased trading commercially.[4][5]
  • German writerEnno Stephan's bookGeheimauftrag Irland: Deutsche Agenten im Irischen Untergrundkampf 1939-1945 gave the first full account of Nazi spies in Ireland during"The Emergency" (the World War II period in Ireland).

Arts and literature

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Sports

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Association football

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Births

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References

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  1. ^Gallagher, Michael (15 December 2023)."Princess Grace documentary to premiere on TG4 on Christmas Day".Mayo News.Her frequent Irish trips are documented, starting with the ground breaking 1961 visit – the first official visit by a head of State after Ireland declared a Republic and on throughout the 1960s and 70s.
  2. ^Ryan, Áine (5 April 2011)."Fairytale Princess Grace dreamed of Mayo roots".Mayo News.
  3. ^"History of St. John's". Sligo Cathedral Group. 2011. Retrieved20 July 2012.
  4. ^Liverpool Museum website
  5. ^"The Heritage Council of Ireland"(PDF). Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved29 July 2011.
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