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January 1 - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in an IRA attack on an RUC barracks in Brookeborough , County Fermanagh . The two men become part of republican folklore.

January 24 - Sir Alfred Chester Beatty becomes the first honorary Irish citizen.

March 3 - Eamon De Valera tells a crowd in Cork that a United Ireland can be achieved with time and the support of the people.

March 7 - Fianna Fáil returns to power winning 78 seats in the Sixteenth Dáil.

March 11 - Prize Bond s are introduced, Bank Of Ireland operates the scheme on behalf of the Minister For Finance .

March 28 - Artist Jack B. Yeats dies in Dublin .

July 4 - Dáil debates the Fethard-on-Sea '' Ne Temere '' boycott

July 22 - The Gough Monument in the Phoenix Park is wrecked by an explosion. The explosion is so violent it is heard all over Dublin .

August 7 - A 20-foot high war memorial in Limerick is blown up. It was erected to commemorate Limerick men who died in World War I .

October 2 - The Minister For Health , Seán MacEntee , launches the Voluntary Health Insurance Board.

October 7 - President Seán T. O'Kelly 's country residence, Roundwood House, County Wicklow , is destroyed by fire.

November 1 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik is visible over Dublin for the second time in a month.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

SPORTS

BIRTHS

December 25 - Shane MacGowan , singer and songwriter.

DEATHS

September 22 - Oliver St. John Gogarty , physician, surgeon, poet and writer.