1954 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown

Events

• January 11 - The Irish Council of the European Movement is formed in Dublin.
• January 19 - The government announces that the new Cork Airport will be built at Ballygarvan, four miles south of the city.
• February 19 - Captain Henry Harrison, the last surviving member of the party led by Charles Stewart Parnell, dies aged 87.
• April 20 - Michael Manning, aged 25, is executed in Mountjoy Prison. he is the last person to be judicially executed in the State.
• May 5 - At its headquarters in Kingsbridge, CIÉ signs a £4.75 million contract to replace its steam trains with diesel locomotives.
• May 16 - 30,000 march through Dublin city in a huge Marian Year procession. It is the city's greatest display of Catholic faith since the International Eucharistic Congress since 1932.
• May 18 - Fianna Fáil lose four seats in the general election. The second inter-party government under John A. Costello comes to power.
• June 28 - Alfie Byrne is elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for the tenth time.
• July 5 - Dublin Corporation decides that Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street will not be removed.
• September 5 - 27 people die when KLM Flight 633 plane crashes two minutes after leaving Shannon Airport.
• September 8 - Marian College Dublin opened for the first time.
• October 16 - A marble plaque is unveiled at Westland Row, Dublin to mark the centenary of the birth of Oscar Wilde.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• League of Ireland

Winners: Shamrock Rovers

• FAI Cup

Winners: Drumcondra 1 - 0 St Patrick's Athletic.

Births

January to June

• 3 January - Fintan Cullen, art historian and writer.
• 10 January - Bairbre de Brún, Sinn Féin MEP and first Sinn Féin politician to represent Northern Ireland in the European Parliament.
• 15 Aprill - Michael Willis , First Ever Escapee From Crumlin Road Jail IRA
• 29 April - Gavan O'Herlihy, actor.
• April - Róisín Shortall, Irish Labour Party TD for Dublin North West.
• 8 March - Dermot Keely, soccer player and manager.
• 30 April - Gerry Daly, soccer player.
• 13 May - Johnny Logan, singer and songwriter.
• 25 May - Daragh O'Malley, actor.

July to December

• 6 July - Tim Kennelly, former Gaelic footballer with Kerry (d.2005).
• 11 July - Liam Thomas Quinn, priest and teacher.
• 23 July - Arthur Morgan, former Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoner, Sinn Féin TD for Louth.
• 28 July - Mikey Sheehy, former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
• 22 August - Jimmy Barry-Murphy, hurler and footballer with Cork.
• 8 September - Áine Brady, Fianna Fáil TD for Kildare North.
• 8 October - Tony Ward, former international rugby player and sports journalist.
• 16 October - Noel Slevin, journalist.
• 2 November - Martin Cullen, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Waterford and Cabinet Minister.
• 11 December - Noel Lane, Galway hurler and manager.
• 17 December - Sile de Valera, Fianna Fáil TD representing Clare, Minister and MEP.

Full date unknown

• December - John Fenton, Cork hurler.
• George Birmingham, former Fine Gael politician.
• Brian Cody, former Kilkenny hurler, manager.
• Pat Delaney, Offaly hurler.
• Catherine Dunne, author.
• Ger Fennelly, former Kilkenny hurler.
• Billy Fitzpatrick, former Kilkenny hurler.
• Paddy Glackin, fiddle player.
• Ger Henderson, former Kilkenny hurler.
• Sean O'Callaghan, former Provisional Irish Republican Army member and Garda Síochána informer.
• Harry O'Donoghue, musician and songwriter.
• Bertie Óg Murphy, Cork hurler and manager.
• Francis Martin O'Donnell, United Nations official.
• Eugene Sheehy, Group Chief Executive of Allied Irish Bank Plc.

Deaths

• 20 April - Michael Manning, carter, convicted of murder and hanged, last person executed in the Republic of Ireland.
• 1 May - James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (b.1865).
• 20 May - Roger Sweetman, barrister-at-law, member of 1st Dáil representing North Wexford .
• 8 July - George Gardiner, boxer (b.1877).
• 16 September - James Douglas, member of the 1922 Seanad.
• 21 October - Thomas V. Honan, merchant, Fianna Fáil member of the Seanad.

Full date unknown

• Elinor Darwin, engraver and painter (b.1871).

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