1967 in Ireland

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Events

• 9 January — Demonstrations by the National Farmers' Association caused major chaos when farm machinery blocked many roads.
• 4 April — The Fianna Fáil party made a presentation to former Taoiseach Seán Lemass.
• 18 April — The Minister for Education, Donogh O'Malley, revealed his plan for a single multi-denominational University of Dublin. This would combine University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.
• 30 June — Jacqueline Kennedy arrived in Ireland for a holiday. She was received at Áras an Uachtaráin, where she was an overnight guest, by President Éamon de Valera and his wife, Sinéad. She was received in the evening by Taoiseach Jack Lynch and his wife Máirín at a state banquet at Dublin Castle.^[1]
• 1 July — Jacqueline Kennedy attended the Irish Sweeps Derby horse race at the Curragh with Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Mrs. Máirín Lynch.^[1]
• 4 August — Senator Margaret Mary Pearse, sister of Patrick Pearse and Willie Pearse, the executed 1916 leaders, was 89 today. She was greeted by President Éamon de Valera.
• 4 September — Ireland's free post-primary school transport scheme began. CIÉ brought 38,000 students to 350 schools.
• 4 November — Taoiseach Jack Lynch returned to Dublin following talks on the European Community with General Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
• 2 December — The poet Patrick Kavanagh was buried in his native Inniskeen, County Monaghan.
• 4 December — The first independent computer in this Ireland began operation at Shannon Airport.
• 11 December — Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill met for talks in Stormont.^[2] Lynch's car was snowballed by Ian Paisley and his supporters.^[3]
• 29 December — The Minister for Labour, Patrick Hillery, announced details of a new redundancy payments scheme which took effect from New Year's Day.

Arts and literature

• 29 September - Dublin's Focus Theatre opens its doors for the first time.
• The Censorship of Publications Act provides for prohibition orders made on the grounds of indecency or obscenity to expire after a period of twelve years.
• New Writers Press founded by poets Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce with Smith's wife Irene in Dublin to publish poetry.
• First publication of Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman (written 1939–40), posthumously in London.^[4]

Sport

• 19 November - Jimmy O'Connor scores the world's fastest ever hat-trick in a first-class match when he scored three goals in 2 minutes and 13 seconds (some sources dispute this, and claim the actual time was 2 minutes and 14 seconds) for Shelbourne against Bohemians in a League of Ireland match at Dalymount Park.

Births

• 22 January - Eleanor McEvoy, singer songwriter.
• 1 March - Justin Benson, cricketer.
• 1 March - Ann Gallagher, former Labour Party politician.
• 17 March - Angus Dunlop, cricketer.
• 16 May - Barry Andrews, former Fianna Fáil politician, TD for Dún Laoghaire.
• 19 May - Geraldine Somerville, actress.
• 26 May - Philip Treacy, hat designer.
• July - Anne Marie Forrest, author.
• 4 September - Cathal Casey, Cork hurler.
• 15 October - Lawrence Roche, road racing cyclist.

Full date unknown

• John Fitzgibbon, Cork hurler.
• Mark Foley, Cork hurler.
• Martin Hanamy, Offaly hurler.
• Gary Kirby, former Limerick hurler.
• Susan McKeown, folk singer.
• Willie O'Connor, former Kilkenny hurler.
• Brian Smyth, painter.
• Liam Twomey, doctor, former Fine Gael TD, Senator.

Deaths

• 1 January - Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal and later Fine Gael (b.1893).
• 28 January - Helena Moloney, fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and was first woman president of the Irish Trade Union Congress (b.1884).
• 16 March - Thomas MacGreevy, poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland (b.1893).
• 1 April - Jennie Wyse Power, member of the Seanad from 1922 to 1936.
• 22 April - Walter Macken, novelist, dramatist and actor (b.1915).
• 4 August - Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, peer and soldier (b.1888).
• 14 September - Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, businessman, politician and philanthropist, Chancellor University of Dublin (b.1874).
• 30 November - Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist (b.1904).
• 4 December - Michael Riordan, San Francisco Police Department Chief (b.1889).
• 18 December - James Everett, Irish Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for Battle of Baltinglass, 44 years service as a TD (b.1894).
• 18 December - Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer (b.1895).
• 28 December - John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael TD (b.1881).

Full date unknown

• Sam English, soccer player (b.1908).
• Mary Devenport O'Neill, poet and dramatist (b.1879).

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