See also: 1949 in Ireland, other events of 1950, 1951 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.

Events

• March 12 - 83 people die when a plane carrying rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in Wales.
• May 12 - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
• August 11 - At a meeting of the European Consultative Assembley in Strasbourg Irish representatives vote agains Winston Churchill's plan for a European Army.
• November 2 - George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic, dies aged 94.

Arts and literature

Sports

Births

• February 25 - Neil Jordan, director, writer and producer.
• May 12 - Gabriel Byrne, actor.
• May 23 - Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator.
• August 29 - Dick Spring, former Tánaiste, leader of the Labour Party and Cabinet Minister.
• September 5 - Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, former Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister.

Deaths

• November 2 - George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature..