1967 in Ireland

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Events in the year 1967 in Ireland.

Incumbents

Events

= January =

  • 9 January – Demonstrations by the National Farmers' Association caused major chaos when farm machinery blocked many roads.

= April =

| title = American Astronaut Colonel John Glenn

| date = 1967-04-07

| website = RTÉ Archives

| url = https://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/924-visits-of-the-sixties/288310-astronaut-john-glenn-in-limerick/

}}

= June =

  • 30 June – Jacqueline Kennedy arrived in Ireland for a holiday with her children, Caroline and John. She was received at the president's residence, Áras an Uachtaráin, where she was an overnight guest, by President Éamon de Valera and his wife, Sinéad. She was hosted in the evening by Taoiseach Jack Lynch and his wife Máirín at a state banquet in Dublin Castle.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV9fAGb7fgw|title=June 30, 1967 - Jacqueline Kennedy in Ireland|via=YouTube|access-date=2011-11-11}}{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/jackie-s-1950s-visits-to-ireland-recalled-in-letters-to-dublin-priest-1.1793786|title=Jackie's 1950s visits to Ireland recalled in letters to Dublin priest|newspaper=The Irish Times|location=Dublin|date=2014-05-14}}

= July =

= September =

  • 4 September – Ireland's free post-primary school transport scheme began. The CIÉ transport company brought 38,000 students to 350 schools.

= November =

= December =

  • 4 December – The first independent computer{{clarify|date=May 2014}} in Ireland began operation at Shannon Airport.
  • 11 December – Taoiseach Jack Lynch and the Northern Ireland prime minister, Terence O'Neill, met for talks in Stormont.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-4dFuaeAlvkC&q=11+december+1967+jack+lynch+terence+o%27neill&pg=PR23|title=The A to Z of the Northern Ireland Conflict|first=Gordon|last=Gillespie|page=xxiii|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2008|isbn=9780810870451}} Lynch's car was snowballed by the unionist, Ian Paisley, and his supporters.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/northern_ireland/history/64247.stm|title=1939-67: Relative calm before the storm|publisher=BBC News|date=1999-03-18}}
  • 22 December – In a pre-Christmas message to Irish people living and working in the United Kingdom, Taoiseach Jack Lynch urged them not to return to Ireland for Christmas because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1221/1185611-christmas-travel-1967/ |title=1967: When Irish people answered call not to come home |first=Eleanor |last=Burnhill |date=21 December 2020 |accessdate=19 November 2023 |work=RTÉ News |publisher=RTÉ}}
  • 29 December – The minister for labour, Patrick Hillery, announced details of a new redundancy payments scheme which took effect from New Year's Day.

= Date unknown =

  • The Galtee Meats company was founded.

Arts and literature

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  • 17 September – British rock band Pink Floyd performed their only concert in Ireland at the Arcadia Ballroom in Cork.{{cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/pink-floyd-in-cork-465123.html|title=Pink Floyd in Cork|work=Irish Examiner|location=Cork|first=Jack|last=Lyons|date=2018-01-01|access-date=2019-01-18}}
  • 29 September – The Focus Theatre in Dublin opened its doors for the first time.
  • 2 December – Poet Patrick Kavanagh was buried in his native Inniskeen, County Monaghan.

= Date unknown =

  • The Censorship of Publications Act provided that prohibition orders made on the grounds of indecency or obscenity would expire after twelve years.
  • The New Writers Press was founded in Dublin, to publish poetry, by poet Michael Smith and his wife Irene, and poet Trevor Joyce.
  • Eavan Boland's poems New Territory were published.
  • John Montague's poems A Chosen Light were published.
  • Flann O'Brien's novel, The Third Policeman (written 1939–40), was published posthumously in London.{{cite book|last=Clissman|first=Anne|title=Flann O'Brien: a critical introduction to his writings|publisher=Gill and Macmillan|year=1975|location=Dublin|isbn=0-06-491215-9|oclc=2002815|page=151}}; {{cite book|last=Hopper|first=Keith|title=Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist|publisher=Cork University Press|year=1995|isbn=978-1-85918-042-6|oclc=33189239|page=48}}
  • Edward Delaney's bronze statue Wolfe Tone was completed.
  • The Project Arts Centre was founded in Dublin.

Sport

| title = The forgotten story of Ireland's record-breaking hat-trick hero 50 years on

| first = Andy

| last = Osborn

| date = 2017-11-07

| website = The 42

| url = https://www.the42.ie/jimmy-oconnor-interview-3682524-Nov2017/

}}

Births

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Deaths

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= April =

  • 12 April – Sam English, association football player (born 1908).
  • 22 April – Walter Macken, novelist, dramatist and actor (born 1915).

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See also

References

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