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January 8 - Peig Sayers travels to Dublin for the first time in 81 years.

January 10 - An Aer Lingus aircraft crashes in Wales killing twenty passengers and the crew. It is the airline's first fatal crash in its fifteen-year history.

April 30 - The Adoption Bill makes provision for the adoption of orphans and children aged between six months and seven years born outside wedlock.

May 11 - In Washington , the House Foreign affairs Committee explains that Ireland's exclusion from Marshall Aid is due to its wartime neutrality.

May 30 - The Minister For Education , Seán Moylon , announces longer summer holidays for national school children.

November 24 - The Minister For Defence , Oscar Traynor , presents framed copies of the Proclamation to three printers who had been involved in the production of the original work.

December 29 - Eamon De Valera arrives back in Dublin after spending four months at an eye clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands .

ARTS AND LITERATURE

Samuel Beckett 's '' Waiting For Godot '' was published in French.

SPORTS

BIRTHS

January 30 - Anne Doyle , newsreader.

February 3 - Dermot Morgan , actor and comedian.

June 7 - Liam Neeson , actor.

November 21 - Eamonn Coghlan ,former runner and 3-time Olympian.

November 28 - Pat Cox , former Progressive Democrats TD , MEP and President of the European Parliament .

DEATHS