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EVENTS

January 18 - The European Court Of Human Rights finds Britain guilty of ''inhuman and degrading treatment'' of Republican internees in Northern Ireland .

January 19 - The Fianna Fáil government dismisses the Garda Commissioner Edmund Garvey . No explanation is given.

January 21 - John Giles resigns as manager of the Republic Of Ireland National Football Team .

March 23 - The funeral of former President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh takes place in Sneem, County Kerry .

March 31 - 6,000 people march through Dublin to the Wood Quay site to protest the building of civic offices on the Viking site.

June 1 - David Cooke of the Alliance Party becomes the first non- Unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast .

August 19 - Over 5,000 people take part in a nuclear rally against a Nuclear Power Station at Carnsore Point , County Wexford .

September 1 - Dublin Institute Of Technology is created on an Ad-hoc basis by the City Of Dublin VEC .

November 2 - Ireland's second national television channel, RTÉ 2 , opens with a live broadcast from the Cork Opera House .

ARTS AND LITERATURE

Iris Murdoch is awarded the Booker Prize for her novel '' The Sea, The Sea .''

SPORTS

March 25 - John Treacy wins the world cross-country championship in Glasgow .

BIRTHS

April 19 - Geordan Murphy , International rugby player.

DEATHS

March 4 - Emmet Dalton , revolutionary.

March 5 - Micheál MacLiammóir , actor and director.

March 21 - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh , fifth President Of Ireland .

July 5 - Mary Swanzy , painter.

November 5 - Denis O'Dea , actor.