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Events from the year 1978 in Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
- 18 January - The European Court of Human Rights finds Britain guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment of republican internees in Northern Ireland.
- 19 January - The Fianna Fáil government dismisses the Garda Commissioner Edmund Garvey. No explanation is given.
- 21 January - Johnny Giles resigns as manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team.
- 23 March - The state funeral of former President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh takes place in Sneem, County Kerry.
- 31 March - 6,000 people march through Dublin to Wood Quay to protest against the building of civic offices on the Viking site.
- 1 June - David Cook of the Alliance Party becomes the first non-unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast.
- 19 August - Over 5,000 people take part in a rally against a nuclear power station at Carnsore Point, County Wexford.
- 1 September - Dublin Institute of Technology is created on an ad hoc basis by the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee.
- 2 November - Ireland's second national television channel, RTÉ 2, opens with a live broadcast from the Cork Opera House.
- November - Cork Regional Hospital officially opens in Cork.
Arts and literature
- Iris Murdoch is awarded the Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, The Sea.
- Peter Sheridan is awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.[1]
- Seán Ó Ríordáin's posthumous poetry collection Tar éis mo Bháis is published.[2]
Sport
Athletics
- 25 March - John Treacy wins the world cross-country championship in Glasgow.
Golf
- Carroll's Irish Open is won by Ken Brown (Scotland).
Horse racing
- Shergar wins the Epsom Derby (by a record ten lengths) and Irish Derby.
Births
January to June
- 11 January - Adrian O'Connor, backstroke swimmer
- 12 January - David Worrell, soccer player.
- 19 January - Simon Webb, soccer player.
- 28 January - Dave Mulcahy, soccer player.
- 30 January - John Doyle, Kildare Gaelic footballer.
- 21 February - Damien English, Fine Gael TD for Meath West.
- 23 February - Jason Byrne, soccer player.
- 7 March - John Miskella, Cork Gaelic footballer.
- 9 March - Derek O'Connor, soccer player.
- 16 March - Jemma Redmond, biochemist, pioneer of 3D bioprinting (died 2016).
- 2 April - John Hoyne, Kilkenny hurler.
- 4 April - Alan Mahon, soccer player.
- 5 April - Stephen Murphy, soccer player.
- 19 April - Geordan Murphy, International rugby player.
- 23 April - Nicholas Murphy, Cork Gaelic footballer.
- 29 April - David O'Loughlin, cyclist.
- 4 May - Stanerra, racehorse.
- 5 May - Paul Byrne, broadcast journalist.
- 10 June - Karl Scully, tenor.
- 21 June - Wayne Sherlock, Cork hurler.
- 25 June - Kieran Kelly, jump jockey (killed in racing accident 2003).
July to September
- 4 July - Derek Lyng, Kilkenny hurler.
- 18 July
- Shane Horgan, International rugby player.
- Annie Mac(Manus), DJ and media presenter.
- 27 July - Brian Barry-Murphy, soccer player.
- July - Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Cork hurler.
- 7 August - Alan Mahon, soccer player.
- 8 August - Alan Maybury, soccer player.
- 21 August - Alan Lee, soccer player.
- 28 August - Barry Ryan, soccer player.
- 29 August - Darren O'Keeffe, soccer player.
- 27 September - John Paul Phelan, Fine Gael Senator.
October to December
- 1 October - Barry Conlon, soccer player.
- 2 October - Eddie Brennan, Kilkenny hurler.
- 5 October - Shane Ryan, Gaelic footballer.
- 9 October - Nicky Byrne, entertainer, member Westlife.
- 17 October - Jerry Flannery, international rugby player.
- 25 October - Chris Keane, rugby player.
- 31 October - Ella McSweeney, radio and television producer
- 9 November - Martin Comerford, Kilkenny hurler.
- 15 December - Edele and Keavy Lynch, members of B*Witched.
- 22 December - Eugene Cloonan, Galway hurler.
Full date unknown
- Caoimhe Butterly, human rights activist.
- Julie Feeney, singer songwriter.
- Mike FitzGerald, Limerick hurler.
- Richie Mullally, Kilkenny hurler.
- Mike O'Brien, Limerick hurler.
Deaths
- 23 January Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil TD and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (born 1902).
- 4 March - Emmet Dalton, revolutionary.
- 6 March - Micheál MacLiammóir, actor and dramatist (born 1899).
- 21 March - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-General, Chief Justice of Ireland and fifth President of Ireland (died 1911).
- 7 July - Mary Swanzy, painter.
- 28 August - Robert Shaw, British-born actor and novelist (born 1927).
- 12 September - Wilfred Hutton, cricketer (born 1901).
- October - Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (born 1897).
- 5 November - Denis O'Dea, actor (born 1905).
- 13 December - Jack Doyle, boxer, actor and singer (born 1913).
Full date unknown
- Gabriel Hayes, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (born 1909).
- Peter Kerley, radiologist (born 1900).
References
- ↑ "Judges shortlist 16 authors". The Irish Times. 4 September 1999. Article dates award as 1977 but other sources confirm Desmond Hogan as 1977 winner.
- ↑ Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography (3rd ed.). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. p. 350. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
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