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EVENTS

March 12 - 83 people die when a plane carrying rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in Wales .

May 12 - Nationalist Senators and MP s in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad .

August 11 - At a meeting of the European Consultative Assembley in Strasbourg Irish representatives vote against Winston Churchill 's plan for a European Army.

November 2 - George Bernard Shaw , playwright and critic, dies aged 94.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

SPORTS

BIRTHS

February 25 - Neil Jordan , director, writer and producer.

May 12 - Gabriel Byrne , actor.

May 23 - Martin McGuinness , Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator.

August 29 - Dick Spring , former Tánaiste , leader of the Labour Party and Cabinet Minister.

September 5 - Máire Geoghegan-Quinn , former Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister.

DEATHS

November 2 - George Bernard Shaw , playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize For Literature ..