1958 in Ireland

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Contents

1 Events
2 Arts and literature
3 Sports
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

February 6 - Dublin's Liam Whelan is among the dead when a plane carrying the Manchester United team crashes in Munich.
March 18 - An Taoiseach Eamon de Valera says he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.
March 20 - Work begins on the £80,000 restoration of the State rooms at Dublin Castle.
May 10 - The Independent TD, John Murphy, resigns in protest at the indifference of the main political parties to the plight of the unemployed.
May 12 - Ardmore Studios is opened by Sean Lemass.
May 22 - The Minister for Education, Jack Lynch, tells the Dáil that the ruling requiring women teachers to retire on marriage is to be revoked.
July 25 - £100 damages are awarded to a nine-year old who was beaten by his teacher in a national school.
July 28 - The Carlisle Monument, an eight foot bronze statue in the Phoenix Park, is blown up in the early hours.
August 6 - Australian athlete Herb Elliott shatters the world record for the mile at Santry Stadium, recording a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds.
August 8 - The US Embassy in Merrion Square displays plans for a new embassy in Dublin.
September 8 - Pan Am's Boeing 707 becomes the first jetliner to touch down on European soil at Shannon Airport.
October 29 - The government announces that the ending of the proportional representation method of voting is to be put to the people in a referendum.
November 4 - In the Vatican, An Taoiseach Eamon de Valera attends the four-hour coronation of Pope John XXIII.
November 12 - Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy is banned by the Censorship of Publications Board.
December 31 - The Harcourt Street Line, a railway service serving Dundrum, Foxrock and points to Bray closes

Arts and literature

Sports

Football World Cup

*Group stage

:*Northern Ireland 1-1 Czechoslovakia

:*Northern Ireland 1-1 Argentina

:*Northern Ireland 1-1 West Germany

::Northern Ireland enter group play off stage the World Cup

:*Northern Ireland 2-1 Czechoslovakia AET

::Northern Ireland qualify for the quarter final stage of the World Cup

:*Northern Ireland 0-4 France

::Northern Ireland are knocked out at the quarter final stage of the World Cup

The Republic of Ireland did not qualify fot the 1958 world cup

Births

July 10 - Fiona Shaw, actress.
August 20 - Nigel Dodds, MP, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
September 18 - John Aldridge, former Irish international soccer player

Deaths

January 1 - Richard Hayes, medical doctor, historian and film censor, member of 1st Dáil representing Limerick East,
August 13 - James Lennon, member of 1st Dáil representing Carlow
August 24 - Paul Henry, west of Ireland landscape artist

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