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EVENTS

January 14 - An Taoiseach Seán Lemass travels to Belfast for an historic meeting with the Prime Minister Of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill .

January 21 - Nationalist leader Eddie McAteer visits An Taoiseach Sean Lemass in Dublin .

February 28 - Roger Casement is honoured with a state funeral in Dublin .

March 7 - Changes to the Liturgy of the Mass are introduced throughout the country today. Mass is said in the vernacular for the first time.

March 18 - The Northern Minister for Agriculture, Harry West attends a meeting with his Southern counterpart, Charles Haughey , in Dublin .

April 18 - The GAA Congress in Dublin decides that the ban on foreign games is to stay in place.

April 21 - James Dillon resigns as leader of Fine Gael . Liam Cosgrave is the new leader.

May 24 - The first car ferry service between Rosslare, County Wexford and Fishguard, Wales officially opens.

June 13 - Huge crowds turn out at Drumcliffe Churchyard, County Sligo to honour the poet W.B. Yeats on the centenary of his birth.

July 8 - An Taoiseach Seán Lemass is conferred with an honoury Doctorate of Law at Trinity College Dublin .

November 17 - The remains of W.T. Cosgrave , first President Of The Executive Council are removed to a church in Rathfarnham, Dublin .

ARTS AND LITERATURE

SPORTS

BIRTHS

October 8 - Ardal O'Hanlon , actor and comedian.

DEATHS

November 16 - William T. Cosgrave , first President Of The Executive Council and former leader of Cumann Na NGaedhael and Fine Gael .