6 February – Billy Whelan, a 22-year-old forward who played four times for the Ireland national team, was among 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster involving English football league champions Manchester United. He had played nearly 100 times for United in the space of three years, scoring 52 goals and winning two league titles.[1]
18 March – TaoiseachÉamon de Valera said he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.
20 March – Work began on the £80,000 restoration of the State Rooms at Dublin Castle.
10 May – The Independent TD, Jack Murphy, resigned in protest at the indifference of the main political parties to the plight of the unemployed.
6 August – Australian athlete Herb Elliott shattered the world record for the mile at Santry Stadium in Dublin, recording a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds.
8 August – The United States Embassy in Merrion Square displayed plans for a new embassy in Dublin.
29 October – The Government announced that the question of ending the proportional representation method of voting was to be put to the people in a referendum.
4 November – In the Vatican, Taoiseach Éamon de Valera attended the four-hour coronation of Pope John XXIII.
31 December – The Harcourt Street railway line in Dublin closed, having served Ranelagh, Milltown, Dundrum, Stillorgan, Foxrock, Carrickmines, Shankill and Bray.
^Monument men – An Irishman’s Diary on the Earl of Carlisle, Goldsmith and Burke The Irish Times, 2018-04-25.
^"Playography Ireland". Dublin: Irish Theatre Institute. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
^"Bad Boys and Blarney: A Prison Masterpiece". The Herald. Glasgow. 23 October 1958. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
^Rosenthal, M. L. (1967). "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed". The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 334–340.