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Events in the year1975 in Ireland.

• President:Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
• Taoiseach:Liam Cosgrave (FG)
• Tánaiste:Brendan Corish (Lab)
• Minister for Finance:Richie Ryan (FG)
• Chief Justice:Tom O'Higgins
• Dáil:20th
• Seanad:13th

• January–June – Ireland held thePresidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time.

• 7 January –Sinéad de Valera, wife of the former president,Éamon de Valera, died inDublin aged 96.
• 30 January –Charles Haughey was brought back onto theFianna Fáil party front bench.

• 14 March –Pierre Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, paid a brief visit to Ireland and held bilateral talks atDublin Castle.^[1][2]

• 17 April –Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, andOur Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort, became recognised colleges of theNational University of Ireland.

• 18 June – Danny O'Hare became acting director of theNational Institute for Higher Education, Dublin; a day later, the governing body first met.

• 31 July –Miami Showband killings: Three members ofThe Miami Showband and two terrorists were killed in anUlster Volunteer Force ambush inCounty Down as the band returned home to Dublin from playing at a dance inBanbridge, Northern Ireland.

• 29 August – Former revolutionary,taoiseach, andpresident of Ireland,Éamon de Valera died in Dublin aged 92. The government announced a day of mourning.

• 3 October –Dutch industrialist andLimerick factory ownerTiede Herrema was kidnapped.
• 12 October –Oliver Plunkett, the 17th-century Archbishop of Armagh, was canonised by PopePaul VI in Rome.
• 21 October – Tiede Herrema was located with his kidnappers inMonasterevin,County Kildare and a police siege began.

• 18 November – The Tiede Herrema kidnap siege ended.
• 29 November –Dublin Airport bombing: The arrivals terminal atDublin Airport was bombed by the terroristUlster Defence Association, killing one person and injuring nine others.^[3] After the airport was evacuated, a second bomb exploded but no-one was hurt.^[4] Later, a suitcase was found that was destroyed in acontrolled explosion by abomb disposal team.^[5]

• 28 December –George Best played aLeague of Ireland match for Cork Celtic against Drogheda.

• 14 May – Cork-born writerPatrick Galvin'sWe Do It For Love, a satire onThe Troubles, opened at theLyric Theatre, Belfast.
• 7 October –Tom Murphy's playThe Sanctuary Lamp opened at theAbbey Theatre, Dublin^[6] to religious controversy.
• Leland Bardwell,Pearse Hutchinson,Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin andMacdara Woods founded the literary publicationCyphers.^[7]
• Garry Hynes,Mick Lally, andMarie Mullen founded theDruid Theatre Company inGalway.
• Lillias Mitchell foundedthe Irish Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers.
• Publications:
  • Eavan Boland's collection of poemsThe War Horse was published.
  • Paul Durcan's collection of poemsO Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was published.
  • John McGahern's novelThe Leavetaking was published.
  • John Ryan's memoirRemembering How We Stood was published.

• TheCarroll's Irish Open golf tournament was won by Irish playerChristy O'Connor Jnr.

• 1 January –Lorraine Pilkington, actress.
• 24 January –Marie McMahon, long-distance runner
• 12 February –Andrew Myler, association football player.
• 1 March –Tara Blaise, singer.
• 17 April –Mark Foley,Limerick hurler.
• 19 April –Hugh O'Conor, actor.
• 25 April –Dara Ó Cinnéide,Kerry Gaelic footballer.
• 10 May –Clodagh McKenna, cookery writer and presenter.

• 10 June –Seánie McGrath,Cork hurler.
• 6 August –Willie Boland, association football player.
• 25 August –Pat Mulcahy, Cork hurler.
• 28 August –Gareth Farrelly, association football player.
• 15 September –Owen Butler, cricketer.
• 2 October –Girvan Dempsey, rugby player.
• 7 November –Ollie Moran, Limerick hurler.
• 16 December –Graham Lee, jockey.
• 18 December –David O'Doherty, comedian.
• 20 December –Graham Hopkins, drummer.

Full date unknown

• David Kitt, musician.
• Paul Murray, novelist.

• 7 January –Sinéad de Valera, writer and wife of former president,Éamon de Valera (born 1878).
• 23 February –Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist, and theatre manager, member ofFirst Dáil, and Cabinet minister (born 1889).
• 27 February –John Vincent Holland, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 atGuillemont, France (born 1889).
• 21 April –James Kempster, cricketer (born 1892).
• 23 April –Michael Carty, Fianna Fáil partyTeachta Dála (TD) (born 1916).
• 28 April –Tom Dreaper, horse trainer.
• 29 April –Arthur Blair-White, cricketer (born 1891).
• 10 May –Michael Tierney,Cumann na nGaedheal party TD,Fine Gael party member ofSeanad Éireann (Senate) and President ofUniversity College Dublin (born 1894).
• 27 May –Robert Collis, physician and writer (born 1900).
• 24 June –Frank MacDermot, barrister, soldier, banker, and politician (born 1886).
• 31 July –Dan "Sandow" O'Donovan,Irish Republican Army member during theIrish War of Independence (b. c1895).
• 9 August –Maurice Gorham, journalist and broadcasting executive (born 1902).
• 10 August –Robert Barton,Sinn Féin party Member of Parliament, Cabinet minister, and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (born 1881).
• 29 August –Éamon de Valera, former Taoiseach and President of Ireland (born 1882).
• 2 October –Seamus Murphy, sculptor (born 1907).
• 25 October –Padraig Marrinan, artist (born 1906).
• 26 October –William Teeling, author, traveller and UK politician (born 1903).
• 25 November –Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother ofAngela Lansbury (born 1895).
• 14 December –George Harman, cricketer and rugby player (born 1874).

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