1974 in Ireland

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Events

• January 2 - The Northern Ireland Executive enjoys its first day in office.
• February 15 - A 600 lb bomb explodes in Dungannon.
• April 24 - The ESB announces that Carnsore Point on the Wexford coast will be the site of its nuclear power station.
• May 8 - The great hall of University College Dublin is to become a 900-seat concert hall and home of the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra.
• May 14 - Northern Ireland grinds to a halt as the Ulster Workers' Council calls a strike following the defeat of an anti-Sunningdale Agreement motion.
• May 17–31 people die and 150 are injured in four car bomb explosions in Dublin and Monaghan by loyalists. They are widely suspected of receiving technical assistance from British security forces.
• May 21 - In Northern Ireland the Ulster Workers' Council Strike comes to an end.
• May 28 - The five-month old Northern Ireland Executive collapses.
• June 14 - Anatoli Kaplin, the first Soviet Ambassador to Ireland, visits President Childers at Áras an Uachtaráin.
• July 17 - The National Coalition's Contraceptive Bill is defeated in a vote in Dáil Éireann. The Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, is one of seven Fine Gael TDs who vote against their own bill.
• September 1 - Transition Year is introduced on a pilot basis in three schools.
• September 21 - Jack Lynch says that Fianna Fáil would not support any proposal to repael articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution.
• October 8 - Seán MacBride, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, is to share in the Nobel Prize for Peace.
• November 4 - Powerscourt House in Enniskerry is destroyed by fire.
• November 17 - President Erskine H. Childers, fourth President of Ireland, dies suddenly aged 69. He had served less than 17 months of his 7 year term.
• December 10 - Seán MacBride is presented with the Nobel Prize for Peace.
• December 19 - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh is sworn in as the fifth President of Ireland.

Arts and literature

• Jennifer Johnston's novel How Many Miles to Babylon? is published .

Births

January to June

• 1 January - Eva Birthistle, actress.
• 12 January - Thomas FitzGerald, Earl of Offaly (d.1997).
• 29 January - Niall Blaney, Teachta Dála who represented Donegal North–East.
• 4 April - Kieran Collins, AKA The Goalden Drifter, Footballer.
• 28 May - Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ radio and television broadcaster.
• 17 May - Brídín Brennan, singer.
• 17 May - Andrea Corr, lead vocalist with The Corrs.

July to September

• 1 July - John Davy, cricketer.
• 1 July - Peter Davy, cricketer.
• 1 July - Olwyn Enright, Fine Gael Teachta Dála representing Laois–Offaly.
• 9 July - Gary Kelly, international soccer player.
• 19 July - Malcolm O'Kelly, international rugby player.
• 10 August - Gus Joyce, cricketer.
• 11 September - Karl Gannon, soccer player.
• September - Liam Donoghue, Galway hurler.

October to December

• 1 October - Keith Duffy, former singer and actor.
• 15 October - Barry McCrea, novelist.
• 21 October - Tony Sheridan, soccer player.
• 5 November - Gráinne Seoige, television broadcaster.
• 18 November - Graham Coughlan, soccer player.
• 22 November - Finian Maynard, four time speed windsurfing world champion, holds the current speed world record for sailing vessels.
• 24 November - Peter Barry, former Kilkenny hurling player.
• 27 November - Roy O'Brien, soccer player.
• 4 December - Jason Molins, cricketer.
• 7 December - Brendan Kennedy, soccer player.
• 8 December - Ian Malone, member of British Army's Irish Guards, shot dead in Iraq (d.2003).

Full date unknown

• Philly Larkin, Kilkenny hurler.
• Maria McCool, singer.
• Fergal McCormack, Cork hurler.
• T. J. Ryan, former Limerick hurler.
• Victoria Smurfit, actress.

Deaths

January to June

• 4 January - Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD (b.1895).
• 15 February - Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer (b.1909).
• 9 March - Daniel O'Neill, artist (b.1920).
• 19 March - Austin Clarke, poet, playwright and writer (b.1896).
• 10 April - Patricia Collinge, actress and writer (b.1892).
• 28 May - Richard Belton, medical doctor, member of the 12th Seanad.
• 3 June - Michael Gaughan, Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker who died in Parkhurst Prison (b.1950).
• 30 June - Frank McKelvey RHA Belfast born poster designer, artist.

July to December

• 5 July - James Young, comedian (b.1918).
• 13 August - Kate O'Brien, novelist (b.1897).
• 17 November - Erskine Hamilton Childers, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and fourth President of Ireland (b.1905).
• 23 November - Cornelius Ryan, journalist and author (b.1920).
• 1 December - Dick Grace, 84, former Kilkenny hurler.
• 24 December - Michael F. Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD (b.1914).
• 25 December - Harry Kernoff, artist (b.1900).
• 27 December - Denis Farrelly, Fine Gael TD and senator (b.1912).

Full date unknown

• Liam Deasy, Irish Republican Army officer in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War (b.1898).
• Padraic Fallon, poet (b.1905).
• Bob Fullam, soccer player (b.1897).