1970 in Ireland

Events in the year 1970 in Ireland.

1970
in
Ireland
Centuries:
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
See also:1970 in Northern Ireland
Other events of 1970
List of years in Ireland

Incumbents

Events

  • 10 January – Huge anti-apartheid demonstrations took place as Ireland played South Africa in rugby union.
  • 10 January – President Éamon de Valera and his wife Sinéad celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
  • 11 January – The Sinn Féin party split into Provisional and Official wings over a disagreement on abstentionism.
  • February – A rock from the surface of the Moon, brought to Earth by the crew of the Apollo 11 mission, was displayed to the public at the United States embassy in Ballsbridge.[1][2][3]
  • 29 March – Irish language pirate radio station Saor Raidió Chonamara began broadcasting.
  • 3 April – Garda (policeman) Richard Fallon was murdered on duty in Dublin, the first policeman killed in the Republic of Ireland during The Troubles.
  • 16 April – Ian Paisley won a by-election to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland.
  • 21 April – The Alliance Party was founded in Northern Ireland.
  • 22 April – Taoiseach Jack Lynch presented a budget in the absence of the Minister for Finance, Charles Haughey, who was injured, supposedly in a riding accident.
  • 4 May – The Minister for Justice, Mícheál Ó Móráin, resigned from the government citing ill-health. The Taoiseach stated in the Dáil (parliament) on 7 May, "I wish to state that Deputy Ó Moráin's condition is not unassociated with the shock he suffered as a result of the killing of Garda Fallon".
  • 6 May – Arms Crisis: The Minister for Finance, Charles Haughey, and the Minister for Agriculture, Neil Blaney, were asked to resign by the Taoiseach. He accused them of an attempted illegal importation of arms for use by the Provisional IRA. Kevin Boland, the Minister for Local Government, resigned in sympathy with them.[4]
  • 27 May – Captain James Kelly, Albert Luykx, and John Kelly were arrested and charged with conspiracy to import arms.
  • 28 May – Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney appeared in the Bridewell Court in Dublin charged, along with Albert Luykx and Captain James Kelly, with conspiracy to import arms.
  • 31 May – The racehorse Arkle was put down at the home of his owner, Anne, Duchess of Westminster.
  • 4 June – Kevin Boland was expelled from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party.
  • 25 June – Bishops meeting at Maynooth lifted the ban on Catholic people attending Trinity College Dublin.
  • 2 July – Neil Blaney was cleared of arms conspiracy charges.
  • 5 July – After a special cabinet meeting the government demanded a ban on all parades in Northern Ireland and the disarming of civilians.
  • 2 August – The British Army fired rubber bullets in Belfast for the first time.
  • 9 August – The Galway-Aran Islands air service was launched. A return air-fare cost £5.
  • 21 August – The Social Democratic and Labour Party was founded in Northern Ireland under the leadership of Gerry Fitt.
  • 1 September – The New University of Ulster was presented with a Royal Charter by Elizabeth II.
  • 3 October – United States President Richard Nixon arrived in Ireland. He was greeted by the Taoiseach. In Dublin, an anti-Vietnam War protest took place.
  • 4 October – Mrs. Nixon visited relatives and her ancestral home in County Mayo. Another protest took place outside the United States embassy in Dublin.
  • 13 October – Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, survivors of the aborted Apollo 13 spaceflight to the moon, landed at Dublin Airport with wives Marilyn Lovell and Mary Haise (Swigert was unmarried).[5]
  • 23 October – Charles Haughey, James Kelly, Albert Luykx, and John Kelly were acquitted in the Arms Conspiracy Trial.
  • 26 October – The Taoiseach was questioned on his return from the United States, and said that there will be no change in fundamental Fianna Fáil party policy regarding Northern Ireland.
  • 15 December – Aer Lingus took delivery of its first Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet, the largest aircraft it ever operated. The plane was stored temporarily in Everett in Washington State, USA until it arrived for service in Ireland the following March.[6]

Unknown dates

Arts and literature

Sport

Horse racing

Football

League of Ireland
Winners: Waterford
FAI Cup
Winners: Bohemian F.C. 0–0, 0–0, 2–1 Sligo Rovers F.C.

Gaelic Athletic Association

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Winners: Kerry 2–19 v 0–18 Meath (played at Croke Park, Dublin)
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Winners: Cork 6–21 v 5–10 Wexford (played at Croke Park, Dublin)

          (This was the first 80 minute All-Ireland Hurling Final)

Births

Full date unknown

Deaths

See also

References

  1. They went to the moon; we discovered the Earth Irish Times, 2019-07-13. Quote: When a fragment of moon rock was displayed in a big glass bubble in the foyer of the US embassy in Ballsbridge in 1970, it was, as Dr Johnson said of the Giant’s Causeway, worth seeing but not worth going to see: a greyish stone the size and shape of a desiccated walnut.
  2. Out of this world: How the first Moon landing thrilled Ireland Irish Independent, 2019-07-13. Quote: When a "priceless sample" of Moon rock was put on display in the American Embassy in Ballsbridge, it was mobbed by crowds, with 4,000 people turning up at the start of the display. The rock, no bigger than a walnut, was described as the "most valuable geological specimen ever seen in Ireland".
  3. Space Oddity Come Here To Me! Dublin Life and Culture. 2018-01-25.
  4. The Oxford companion to Irish history (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. 24 February 2011. p. 27. ISBN 9780199691869.
  5. American Astronauts visit Dublin Irish Photo Archive, 1970-10-13.
  6. EI-ASI AirHistory.net, 2019-10-18.
  7. "Lyrics to Clannad". LyricsFreak. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
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