1984 in Ireland

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Events

• 1 January
  • Department of Posts and Telegraphs split into An Post and Telecom Éireann.
  • Galway City begins celebrations marking its mayoral status granted by King Richard III in 1484.
• 10 January – Seán MacEntee, founder member of Fianna Fáil and former Tánaiste, dies aged 94. He was the last surviving member of the First Dáil.
• 30 January – Luke Kelly of The Dubliners dies aged 43.
• 31 January – Ann Lovett, aged 15, dies after giving birth to a baby boy in a grotto in Granard, County Longford. Reporting of this incident on The Gay Byrne Show uncovers many stories from listeners of rape, abortion and sexual abuse.
• 14 March – Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams is shot and wounded in Belfast.
• 2 May – The New Ireland Forum publishes its report presenting three possibilities for discussion: a unitary Irish state, a federal/confederal state and joint sovereignty.
• 22 May – The village of Ballyporeen, County Tipperary prepares for the visit of US President Ronald Reagan.
• 3 – 10 June 000 people take part in an anti-Reagan march in Dublin.
• 4 June – President Reagan addresses a joint session of the houses of the Oireachtas.
• 18 June – European Parliament elections are held in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
• 14 July – Columban missionary Fr Niall O'Brien, who was imprisoned in the Philippines, is released.
• 17 July – Some workers in Dunnes Stores, Henry Street, Dublin refuse to handle South African produce as a protest against apartheid.
• 23 July – The DART rail service between Howth and Bray is introduced.
• 28 September – The Dublin telephone system collapses due to network overload as a result of a phone-in competition on an illegal radio station.
• 1 October – The University of Ulster is presented with a Royal Charter by Elizabeth II.
• 5 October – In Dublin, women workers in Dunnes Stores, who have been on strike for the past 11 weeks in support of a dispute over the handling of South African fruit, begin a sit-in at the store.
• 12 October – The IRA kills five people in a bomb attack at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the Conservative Party conference.
• 22 October – Brother Edmund Ignatius Rice Bridge across the River Suir at Waterford is opened to road traffic.
• 5 November – First broadcast of the RTÉ Radio morning current affairs program Morning Ireland
• 14 November – Irish Shipping Limited placed into liquidation
• 8 November – RTÉ's first newsreader, Charles Mitchel, reads his last news bulletin.
• 2 December – European Economic Community heads of government visit President Hillery and Mrs Hillery at Áras an Uachtaráin.
• 7 December – The most sophisticated naval vessel ever built in the country, the £25 million LÉ Eithne, is commissioned at the Haulbowline naval base.

Arts and literature

• Kate O'Brien Weekend, in Limerick, celebrated for the first time

Sport

Cork City Football Club is founded.Former Chelsea and Cork Celtic hero Bobby Tambling was the first manager appointed to the club

Golf

• Carroll's Irish Open is won by Bernhard Langer (West Germany).

Births

January to June

• 2 January – Denis Behan, soccer player.
• 6 January – Stephen Elliott, soccer player.
• 10 January – Alan McCormack, soccer player.
• 10 February – John Fitzgerald, soccer player.
• 22 February – Tommy Bowe, international rugby player.
• 4 March – Kevin O'Brien, cricketer.
• 8 March – Nora Jane Noone, actress.
• 22 March – Aidan Collins, soccer player.
• 4 April – Willie O'Dwyer, Kilkenny hurler.
• 13 May – Mark O'Brien, soccer player.
• 11 June – Andy Lee, boxer.

July to December

• 2 July – Ger O'Brien, soccer player.
• 5 July – Paul Keegan, soccer player.
• 21 August – Conor Kenna, soccer player.
• 16 September – Robbie Clarke, soccer player.
• 2 October – Derek Pender, soccer player.
• 26 October – Martin Burke, actor and voice actor.
• 19 November – Stephen Bradley, soccer player.
• 19 December – Ruaidhri Lennon, artist.
• 31 December – Anthony Flood, soccer player.

Full date unknown

• David Collins, Galway hurler.
• Bryan Cullen, Dublin Gaelic footballer.
• Pamela Fitzgerald, camogie player.
• Kevin Hartnett, Cork hurler.
• Damien Hayes, Galway hurler.
• Stephen Hiney, Dublin hurler.
• Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

January to June

• 1 January – Tarlach Ó Raifeartaigh, educationalist.
• 10 January – Seán MacEntee, Fianna Fáil TD and Tánaiste from 1959 to 1965 (b.1889).
• 24 January – Bernard Cowen, Fianna Fáil TD and Minister of State (b.1932).
• 30 January – Luke Kelly, singer, folk musician and member of the band The Dubliners (b.1940).
• 3 March – Rinty Monaghan, world flyweight boxing championship (b.1920).
• 19 March – Charlie Ware, 83, Waterford hurler.
• 24 March – Fintan Kennedy, former General President of IT&GWU, member of the Seanad from 1969 to 1981.
• 6 April – Jimmy Kennedy, songwriter (b.(1902).
• 26 April – Kathleen Behan, mother of the Behans.
• June – Alec Mackie, soccer player (b.1903).

July to December

• 21 July – Paddy Grace, former Kilkenny hurler (b.1917)
• 8 August – Denis Johnston, dramatist (b.1901)
• 13 August – Jack Lawrence, cricketer (b.1904)
• 7 September – Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short story writer (b.1896)
• 15 September – Charles Lynch, pianist (b.1906)
• 4 November – Fintan Coogan, Snr Fine Gael TD (b. 1910)

Full date unknown

• Theodore William Moody, historian (b.1907).
• William Bedell Stanford, classical scholar and senator (b.1911).