1975 in Ireland

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1 Events

Events

January 7 - Sinéad Bean de Valera dies in Dublin aged 96.
January 30 - Charles Haughey is brought back onto the Fianna Fáil front bench.
February 18 - Aer Lingus hostesses get a new uniform.
April 17 - Our Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort becomes a recognised college of the National University of Ireland.
June 18 - Dr Danny O'Hare is made acting director of the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin a day later the governing body meets for the first time.
July 31 - Three members of the Miami Showband are killed in a UVF ambush as they return froma dance in County Down.
August 29 - Eamon de Valera dies in Dublin aged 92. His life has spanned the history of the Irish State. He was a leader of the Easter Rising in 1916. He served as Taoiseach for 21 years and President for 14 years. The government announces a day of mourning.
October 3 - Dutch industrialist Dr. Tiede Herrema , who owns a factory in Limerick, is kidnapped.
October 12 - Oliver Plunkett, the 17th-century Archbishop of Armagh, is canonised by Pope Paul VI in Rome.
October 21 - Dr. Tiede Herrema is located with his kidnappers in Monasterevin, County Kildare.
November 18 - The Tiede Herrema kidnap siege ends.
December 28 - George Best plays a League of Ireland match for Cork Celtic against Drogheda.

The Druid theatre company is founded in Galway by Garry Hynes , Mick Lally and Marie Mullen .
John Ryan's memoir Remembering How We Stood and Paul Durkan 's collection of poems O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor are published.

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