1951 in Ireland

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2 February - Éamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
11 April - Minister for Health Dr. Noel Browne resigns and his Mother and Child Scheme is overturned.
19 April - The Attorney General for Northern Ireland, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, says that Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth.
24 May - Gardaí exchange shots with two men after they throw a bomb at the British Embassy in Dublin.
30 May - Irish general election, 1951: Fianna Fáil win most seats but lack an overall majority.
13 June - Members of the 14th Dáil assemble. Éamon de Valera becomes Taoiseach with one of the smallest majorities on record (74-69), forming a Fianna Fáil government with the support of independents.
1 July - Taoiseach Éamon de Valera pays his first visit to Derry in 25 years.
15 November - The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded jointly to Professor Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin and Sir John Cockcroft.

18 July - The Abbey Theatre in Dublin is burnt to the ground.
30 July–22 September - The now-homeless Abbey Theatre company performs a season at the Rupert Guinness Hall in the Guinness Brewery^[1] before moving to the Queen's Theatre, Dublin.
15 August - Donagh MacDonagh's ballad opera God's Gentry opens at the Belfast Arts Theatre, transferring to the Gate Theatre, Dublin on 26 December.
21 October–4 November - First Wexford "Festival of Music and the Arts", predecessor of Wexford Festival Opera.
First national festival of the folk music of Ireland held in Mullingar.
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann established in Mullingar by a group of uilleann pipers to promote the folk music and language of Ireland.
Samuel Beckett's novel Molloy is published in French.
Sinéad de Valera's collection for children The Emerald Ring and Other Irish Fairy Stories is published.
The Dolmen Press is established in Dublin by Liam and Josephine Miller to publish Irish literature.^[2]
Louis le Brocquy paints A Family.
Daniel O'Neill paints Knockalla Hills, Donegal and Western Landscape.

8 June - Jack Doyle defeats America's 'Beer Baron' Two-Ton Tony Gelanto at Tolka Park.

Winners: Cork Athletic

Winners: Transport 1 - 1, 1 - 0 Shelbourne.

4 April - Alan Hughes, cricketer.
24 April - Enda Kenny, current leader of Fine Gael, TD for Mayo.
1 May - Michael McDowell, founding member of Progressive Democrats, TD, Cabinet Minister and Attorney-General.
21 May - Ray O'Brien, soccer player.
23 May - Viscount Slane, later The Marquess Conyngham, pop concert promoter.
26 May - Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Fine Gael TD, councillor.
6 June - Frank Fahey, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway West.
12 June - Nóirín Ní Riain, singer, musician, writer, theologian.
27 June - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland.

July - Anne Colley, Progressive Democrats politician.
30 August - Dana Rosemary Scallon, singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner and MEP.
12 September - Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil.
5 October - Bob Geldof, singer, songwriter and humanitarian.
18 December - Noel Treacy, Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East.
30 December - Gay Mitchell, TD representing Dublin South-Central, MEP for Dublin.

John Aimers, educator and Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada.
Darina Allen, chef and television personality.
Adrian Hardiman, justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland.
Geraldine Kennedy, journalist, politician and first female editor of The Irish Times.
Joe McKenna, Limerick hurler and manager.
Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, singer.

9 January - John Aston, cricketer (born 1882).
17 January - Alexander Haslett, independent TD (born 1883).
18 January - Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer (born 1867).
26 January - Thomas Houghton, Anglican clergyman and editor of the Gospel Magazine (born 1859).
18 March - Thomas Foran, trade union official, continuous membership of the Seanad from 1922 to 1948.
27 March - James Geoghegan, Fianna Fáil TD, Minister for Justice, Attorney General of Ireland and Justice of the Supreme Court (born 1886).
29 March - Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta, Canada (born 1869).
10 April - Nora Barnacle, lover, companion, inspiration and wife of James Joyce (born 1884).
12 April - Henry De Vere Stacpoole, ship's doctor and author (born 1863).
19 May - Frederick Barton Maurice, soldier, military correspondent, writer and academic, founded the British Legion in 1920 (born 1871).
10 June - Justice George Gavan Duffy, barrister, Sinn Féin MP and a signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921 (born 1882).
21 June - Eugene O'Mahoney, museum curator and entomologist (born 1899).

24 July - Paddy Moore, soccer player (born 1909).
16 August - Gus Kelly, cricketer (born 1877).
17 August - Joseph Warwick Bigger, professor, member of the Dublin University panel in the Seanad from 1944 to 1951.
25 August - John J. McGrath, Democrat U.S. Representative from California (born 1872).
27 November - George Meldon, cricketer (born 1885).

↑ "Archive Fact Sheet: Rupert Guinness Hall" (PDF). Dublin: Guinness Storehouse. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
↑ Ó Ciosáin, Niall; Hutton, Clare (2013). "The history of the book in Ireland". In Suarez, Michael F.; Woudhuysen, H. R. The Book: A Global History. Oxford University Press. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6.

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