See also: 1951 in Ireland, other events of 1952, 1953 in Ireland and the list of 'years in Ireland'.

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Contents

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

Events

• January 8 - Peig Sayers travels to Dublin for the first time in 81 years.
• January 10 - An Aer Lingus aircraft crashes in Wales killing twenty passengers and the crew. It is the airline's first fatal crash in its fifteen-year history.
• April 30 - The Adoption Bill makes provision for the adoption of orphans and children aged between six months and seven years born outside wedlock.
• May 11 - In Washington, the House Foreign affairs Committee explains that Ireland's exclusion from Marshall Aid is due to its wartime neutrality.
• May 30 - The Minister for Education, Seán Moylon, announces longer summer holidays for national school children.
• November 24 - The Minister for Defence, Oscar Traynor, presents framed copies of the Proclamation to three printers who had been involved in the production of the original work.
• December 29 - Eamon de Valera arrives back in Dublin after spending four months at an eye clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Arts and literature

Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot was published in French.

Sports

Births

• January 30 - Anne Doyle, newsreader.
• February 3 - Dermot Morgan, actor and comedian.
• June 7 - Liam Neeson, actor.
• November 21 - Eamonn Coghlan,former runner and 3-time Olympian.
• November 28 - Pat Cox, former Progressive Democrats TD, MEP and President of the European Parliament.

Deaths