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1983 in Ireland

Events from the year 1983 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Patrick Hillery
 * Taoiseach: Garret FitzGerald (FG)
 * Tánaiste: Dick Spring (Lab)
 * Minister for Finance: Alan Dukes (FG)
 * Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins
 * Dáil: 24th
 * Seanad: 17th (from 23 February 1983)

Events

 * January – The satirical magazine The Phoenix was launched.
 * 19 January – The government confirmed that the Garda Síochána bugged politicians' and journalists' telephones.
 * 8 February – A motion calling for the resignation of Charles Haughey as leader failed after a 12-hour Fianna Fáil meeting.
 * 9 February – The racehorse Shergar was kidnapped from Ballymany Stud in County Kildare.
 * 14 April – The inaugural meeting of Aosdána, an affiliation of creative artists, took place in the Old Parliament Building in Dublin.
 * 23 April – While more than 50 illegal pirate radio stations were broadcasting in Ireland, a Government memorandum described how their signals were interfering seriously with ambulance, fire brigade and police radio systems, airport traffic systems, and legitimate radio and television reception throughout the country. The document also referred to complaints received from other countries. The following month, equipment was seized from Radio Nova, Kiss FM and Radio Sunshine. Equipment was also removed from Community Radio 257 in Portmarnock in December.
 * 25 April – Two thousand people demonstrated in Dublin against the proposed Pro-Life Amendment Bill (abortion).
 * 18 May – Officials raided sites used by unlicensed operator Radio Nova in Dublin.
 * 20 May – The funeral took place of former Tánaiste, Frank Aiken, in his native Camlough.
 * 23 May – The Bushmills Distillery in County Antrim celebrated its 350th anniversary.
 * 27 May – A Mexican jet stranded for five weeks at Mallow Racecourse departed.
 * 30 May – The inaugural meeting of the New Ireland Forum took place at Dublin Castle.
 * 10 June – Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin was elected the new Member of Parliament for West Belfast.
 * 4 July – United States Vice President George Bush and his wife Barbara paid a one-day visit to Dublin. The Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, hosted a lunch in his honour at the State Apartments in Dublin Castle.
 * 31 July – Eight young men attending the Lisdoonvarna music festival drowned while swimming at Doolin.
 * September – The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, paid a three-day state visit to Ireland with his wife, Sally. A guard of honour from the 5th Infantry Battalion greeted him at Dublin Airport, and the Army No. 1 Band played. The Taoiseach, Garret Fitzgerald, hosted a lunch in his honour at Iveagh House, and a banquet was held in Dublin Castle. Mugabe met Bishop Donal Lamont at Maynooth College on 9 September.
 * 8 September – The referendum on the constitutional amendment in relation to abortion was carried by a two-to-one majority. This created equal constitutional recognition of the right to life of a pregnant woman and of her embryo or foetus.
 * 16 September – The Government banned the Soviet airline, Aeroflot, from landing at Shannon Airport at the request of the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, following the shooting down by the Soviet Union of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 with the loss of all 269 passengers and crew.
 * 20 September – Leading politicians paid tribute to former Tánaiste George Colley (who died in a London hospital) as he was buried.
 * 25 September – Maze Prison escape: 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners with arms escaped from HM Prison Maze in County Antrim.
 * 1 October – The Concorde supersonic airliner paid its first visit to Dublin Airport. The landing of the Air France plane was watched by a large crowd from the observation deck on the roof of the terminal building. The flight came to bring passengers to Paris to see a horse race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
 * 5 October – The first stretch of motorway in the Republic of Ireland was opened – the eight-kilometre Naas bypass on the N7 national primary route.
 * 25 November – Quinnsworth supermarket executive Don Tidey was kidnapped outside his home in Dublin by the Provisional IRA.
 * 3 December – President Patrick Hillery was elected unopposed to his second and final seven-year term of office.
 * 16 December – Don Tidey was rescued in County Leitrim. A soldier, Private Patrick Kelly, and Garda recruit, Gary Sheehan, were killed by the Provisional IRA during the rescue.

Arts and literature

 * 10 July – The Lark in the Park concert in Saint Anne's Park in Raheny featured performers the Rhythm Kings, Some Kind of Wonderful, and The Blades.
 * 14 August – a concert was held at the Phoenix Park Racecourse in Dublin headlined by U2 and supported by Big Country, Eurythmics, Perfect Crime, Simple Minds, and Steel Pulse.
 * August – Dorothy Nelson was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her novel In Night's City.
 * 29 September – Tom Murphy's play The Gigli Concert opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
 * Shaun Davey's orchestral suite for uilleann pipes The Pilgrim was first performed and recorded.
 * Brendan Kennelly's poem sequence Cromwell was published.

Association football

 * Ireland recorded their biggest win in a full international by beating Malta 8–0 on 16 November in a Euro84 qualifier at Dalymount Park in Dublin.

Athletics

 * Runner Eamonn Coghlan won the 5,000-metre gold medal at the World Championships in Helsinki.
 * The inaugural Women's Mini Marathon took place in Dublin on 12 June 1983 with 9,000 participants.

Gaelic football

 * Dublin GAA won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Golf

 * The Irish Open was won by Seve Ballesteros (Spain).

Horse racing

 * Stanerra becomes the first European-trained racehorse to win the Japan Cup.

Hurling

 * Kilkenny GAA won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

Births

 * 4 January – Kerry Condon, actress.
 * 8 January – Jon Daly, soccer player.
 * 15 January – Keith Fahey, soccer player.
 * 18 January – Samantha Mumba, singer and actress.
 * 8 February – John Gardiner, Cork hurler.
 * 15 February – Martin Coleman Jnr, Cork hurler.
 * 21 February – Eoin Macken, actor
 * 22 February – Kieran Murphy (Sarsfields hurler), Cork and Sarsfields hurler.
 * 1 March – Niall Moran, Limerick hurler.
 * 9 March – Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany, filmmaker and landowner.
 * 15 March – Neale Richmond, Fine Gael politician, member of Seanad Éireann.
 * 16 March – Katie Kim, singer-songwriter
 * 18 March – Setanta Ó hAilpín, Cork hurler and Australian Rules footballer.
 * 22 March – Kenny Carroll, cricketer.
 * 31 March – Paddy McCarthy, soccer player.
 * 15 April – Eoghan McDermott, broadcast presenter.
 * 20 April – Joanne King, actress.
 * 7 May – Joanne McNally, comedian
 * 12 May – Domhnall Gleeson, actor
 * 18 May – Sean Thornton, soccer player.
 * 27 May – Tommy Walsh, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 10 June – Ger Farragher, Galway hurler.
 * 19 June – Aidan Turner, actor.
 * 7 July – Ciara Newell, singer-songwriter.
 * 24 July – Joy Neville, rugby union international and referee.
 * 28 July – Stephen Paisley, soccer player.
 * 30 July – Sean Dillon, soccer player.
 * 7 August – Patrick McWalter, soccer player.
 * 13 August – Graham Gartland, soccer player.
 * 6 September – Stephen Kelly, soccer player.
 * 7 September – Philip Deignan, road racing cyclist.
 * 10 September – Brian O Donoghue, Galway Gaelic footballer.
 * 12 September – Carly Smithson, singer
 * 16 September – Wayne Henderson, soccer player.
 * 18 September – Kevin Doyle, soccer player
 * 21 September – Sarah Rees Brennan, Irish novelist
 * 4 October – Éamon Zayed, soccer player.
 * 10 October – Daryl McMahon, soccer player.
 * 22 October – Tomás O'Leary, rugby union scrum-half.
 * 24 October – Katie McGrath, actress.
 * 25 October – Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, singer, Rose of Tralee in 2005.
 * 27 October – Stephen Hiney, Dublin hurler.
 * 31 October – Katy French, model and socialite (died 2007).
 * 28 November – Peter Hynes, soccer player.
 * 28 November – Mick Flannery, folk music singer-songwriter.
 * 29 December – Cian O'Connor, Cork hurler.

Full date unknown

 * Linda Bhreathnach, actress.
 * Philip Brennan, Dublin hurler.
 * Thomas Gernon, winner of the Millennium Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (Ireland).
 * Daráine Mulvihill, television personality.
 * Kieran Murphy, Cork and Erin's Own hurler.
 * James O'Brien, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

 * 30 January – Alan Cunningham, soldier noted for victories in the East African Campaign during the Second World War (born 1887).
 * 8 February – Reginald N. Webster, businessman in America and Thoroughbred racehorse owner (born 1898).
 * 16 March – Francis Connell, cricketer (born 1902).
 * 20 March – Sheila Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1914).
 * 25 March – Constantine Fitzgibbon, historian and novelist (born 1919).
 * 20 April – Sarah Makem, traditional singer (born 1900).
 * 6 May – Mícheál Ó Móráin, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1912).
 * 18 May – Frank Aiken, Fianna Fáil TD and founding member, Cabinet Minister and Tánaiste (born 1898).
 * 4 July – John Bodkin Adams, general practitioner in Eastbourne cleared of murdering one of his patients (born 1899).
 * 21 August – Francis Evans, British diplomat (born 1897).
 * 24 August – Johnny Quirke, Cork hurler (born 1911).
 * 17 September – George Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, held six Ministerial posts including Tánaiste (born 1925).
 * 18 September – Con Lehane, nationalist, member of the IRA Army Council and Dáil representative (born 1911).
 * 24 October – Anthony Barry, businessman, Fine Gael TD, Seanad member and Lord Mayor of Cork (born 1901).
 * 28 October – Roderick Gill, cricketer (born 1919).
 * 22 November – Leonard Wibberley, author (born 1915).
 * 23 December – Colin Middleton, artist (born 1910).

Full date unknown

 * Séamus Bhriain Mac Amhlaig, last known speaker of the Antrim dialect of the Irish language.
 * David Neligan, policeman, "The Spy in the Castle" for Michael Collins (born 1899).
 * Jim Ware, Waterford hurler (born 1908).

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1982 in Ireland

Events from the year 1982 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Patrick Hillery
 * Taoiseach:
 * Garret FitzGerald (FG) (until 9 March 1982)
 * Charles Haughey (FF) (from 9 March 1982 until 14 December 1982)
 * Garret FitzGerald (FG) (from 14 December 1982)
 * Tánaiste:
 * Michael O'Leary (Lab) (until 9 March 1982)
 * Ray MacSharry (FF) (from 9 March 1982 until 14 December 1982)
 * Dick Spring (Lab) (from 14 December 1982)
 * Minister for Finance:
 * John Bruton (FG) (until 9 March 1982)
 * Ray MacSharry (FF) (from 9 March 1982 until 14 December 1982)
 * Alan Dukes (FG) (from 14 December 1982)
 * Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins
 * Dáil:
 * 22nd (until 27 January 1982)
 * 23rd (from 9 March 1982 until 4 November 1982)
 * 24th (from 14 December 1982)
 * Seanad:
 * 15th (until 16 April 1982)
 * 16th (from 13 May 1982 until 21 December 1982)

Events

 * 21 January – Kildare TD, Charlie McCreevy, was expelled from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party for criticising Charles Haughey.
 * 27 January – Garret FitzGerald's Fine Gael-Labour government was defeated 82–81 on its budget; the 22nd Dáil was dissolved.
 * 1 February – Corporal punishment was banned in schools.
 * 18 February – General election: Fianna Fáil was the largest party.
 * 9 March – 23rd Dáil assembled; Charles Haughey was elected Taoiseach.
 * 12 March – The country's first crematorium was officially opened at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
 * 6 April – James Prior launched 'rolling devolution' for Northern Ireland.
 * 28 April – Work began on the Cork–Dublin natural gas pipeline.
 * 2 May – The Government affirmed its neutrality in the Falklands war between the United Kingdom and Argentina, and opposed European Economic Community sanctions against Argentina (as did Italy).
 * 10 May – Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party was appointed to Seanad Éireann.
 * 24 May – Twenty thousand people across the country marched to protest against income tax and Pay Related Social Insurance changes.
 * 20 July – The Irish Republican Army killed ten servicemen in bomb attacks in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in London.
 * 16 August – The Attorney General Patrick Connolly resigned after a wanted double-murderer was found staying on his property; the ensuing scandal was later described as being "grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented" by Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
 * 6 October – Taoiseach Charles Haughey won a majority of 58 votes to 22 in an open ballot on Charlie McCreevy's motion of no confidence in his leadership.
 * 15 October – Cork Airport celebrated its 21st birthday. The airport had yet to make a profit.
 * 20 October – Polling took place in the Northern Ireland Assembly election. Sinn Féin won its first five seats in the Assembly, with Gerry Adams representing Belfast West.
 * 27 October – Pte Michael McAleavey, an Irish Army soldier on service with UNIFIL in South Lebanon, murdered three of his colleagues: Pte Peter Burke, Pte Thomas Murphy, and Cpl Gary Morrow.
 * 1 November - A newly-designed £50 note was launched featuring a portrait of musician Turlough O'Carolan.
 * 2 November – Former leader of the Labour Party, Michael O'Leary, joined the Fine Gael Party.
 * 4 November – The government lost a confidence motion in the Dáil by 82 votes to 80. President Hillery dissolved the 23rd Dáil.
 * 24 November – General election: Fine Gael was the largest party.
 * 1 December – Grafton Street in Dublin officially became a pedestrianised street.
 * 6 December – Ballykelly disco bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army killed 17 people in a bomb attack at the Droppin Well Inn, Ballykelly, County Londonderry.
 * 14 December – The 24th Dáil assembled; Garret FitzGerald was elected Taoiseach.
 * Undated event: Rice Bridge replaced Redmond Bridge in Waterford City.

Arts and literature

 * 11 March – Frank McGuinness's first play, The Factory Girls, set in a Donegal shirt factory, was premiered on the Abbey Theatre's Peacock stage in Dublin.
 * 22 April – Graham Reid's play The Hidden Curriculum, set in West Belfast, was premiered on the Peacock Stage of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
 * 16 June (Bloomsday) – Ulysses broadcast: RTÉ Radio transmitted an uninterrupted, unabridged, 30-hour dramatised performance of James Joyce's novel Ulysses to mark the centenary of the author's birth. The marathon broadcast won a Jacob's Award.
 * 24 July – The second Slane Concert took place with The Rolling Stones, The J. Geils Band, The Chieftains, and George Thorogood and the Destroyers playing at Slane Castle.
 * September – Medbh McGuckian was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, with a special prize to Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella for An Duanaire / Poems of the Dispossessed. McGuckian's poetry collection The Flower Master was published this year.
 * Maeve Binchy's first novel Light a Penny Candle was published.
 * Unlicensed operator Radio Nova began broadcasting in Dublin.

Gaelic football

 * Kerry were denied a fifth consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title by Offaly in a famous final.

Golf

 * The Irish Open was won by Irishman John O'Leary.

Hurling

 * Kilkenny won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

Rugby

 * The Ireland rugby team won the Triple Crown Ireland for the first time since 1949 by beating Scotland 21–12 on 21 February, having already beaten Wales and England.

January to June

 * 22 January – Alan McDermott, soccer player.
 * 10 February – Keith Dunne, soccer player.
 * 11 February – John Melligan, soccer player.
 * 18 February – Damien Hayes, Galway hurler.
 * 6 March – J. J. Delaney, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 4 April – Robbie Hedderman, soccer player.
 * 6 April – Philip Byrne, soccer player.
 * 27 April – Cliff Byrne, soccer player.
 * 27 April – Stephen O'Flynn, soccer player.
 * 5 May – Noel O'Leary, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 10 May – Alan Keely, soccer player (d. 2021).
 * 20 May – Wes Hoolahan, soccer player.
 * 19 June – Jackie Tyrrell, Kilkenny hurler.

July to December

 * 13 July – James Masters, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 20 July – Aidan Fogarty, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 21 July – Brian Murphy, Cork hurler.
 * 29 July – Andy Reid, soccer player.
 * 31 July – Alan O'Hare, soccer player.
 * 5 August – John Lester, soccer player.
 * 10 September – Andrew Murray, boxer.

Full date unknown

 * Graham Callinan, Cork hurler.
 * Sarah Flannery, winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition.
 * Peter Lawlor, Limerick hurler.
 * Kevin McMahon, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * Damian Reale, Limerick hurler.
 * Pat Tobin, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

 * 1 January – Michael Hilliard, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (born 1903).
 * 16 January – Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, cricketer, squash player and art collector (born 1909).
 * 5 February – George Crothers, cricketer (born 1909).
 * 16 February – Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North-West (born 1910).
 * 3 March – Con Cottrell, Cork hurler (born 1917).
 * 18 March – Patrick Smith, TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1901).
 * 26 March – Sam Kydd, actor (born 1915).
 * 26 May – Pamela Hinkson, novelist (born 1900).
 * 15 June – Johnny Callanan, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1910).
 * 7 July – Charles Hill, cricketer (born 1903).
 * 24 August – Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, poet and writer (born 1919).
 * 13 September – Mick Mackey, Limerick hurler and first recipient of the All-Time All Star Award (hurling) (born 1912).
 * 5 October – Séamus Ennis, uilleann piper, singer and folk-song collector (born 1919).
 * 18 November – Hilton Edwards, actor, director, co-founder of Gate Theatre (born 1903 in London).

Full date unknown

 * Mick Kennefick, Cork hurler (born 1924).
 * Caitlín Maude, poet, actress and traditional singer (born 1941).

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Puncknowle

Puncknowle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated on the southern slopes of the Bride Valley approximately 5 mi east of Bridport and 1.5 mi north of Chesil Beach on the Jurassic Coast. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the coastal settlement of West Bexington to the south—had a population of 466.

Puncknowle village has a Jacobean manor house, which in 1906 Sir Frederick Treves described as "one of the daintiest and most beautiful manor houses in the county". The Napier family, who came to Puncknowle from Merchiston in Scotland, were lords of the manor for three centuries, until the early 18th century. In the early 19th century the manor was occupied by Colonel Shrapnel, inventor of the shrapnel shell.

Puncknowle parish church, dedicated to St Mary, has a 12th-century chancel arch and west tower, though the latter was altered in 1678. The nave and the rest of the chancel were largely rebuilt at various dates in the 19th century. The church contains memorials to the Napiers and has an unusual font, composed of a Norman bowl on top of another font from West Bexington church, which French forces destroyed in the 16th century.

There is a single public house in the village called The Crown Inn, and many holiday properties.

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Norfolk County Division

The Norfolk County Division was short lived of the British Army formed during the Second World War. It was formed on 24 December 1940, and disbanded on 18 November 1941 by being redesignated as the 76th Infantry Division. It was commanded by Major-General W.H. Ozanne, and it was an infantry only formation consisting of three Independent Infantry Brigades (Home). Combat support, artillery, engineers etc., would be provided by other local formations.

It was under command of II Corps for its existence.

Order of Battle
All brigades were part of the division from 12 December 1940 to 17 November 1941.

213th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home)
 * 13th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
 * 9th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment
 * 14th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment

Redesignated as the 213th Infantry Brigade on leaving the division.

220th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home)
 * 23rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (left 5 July 1941)
 * 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
 * 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
 * 9th Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

Redesignated as the 220th Infantry Brigade on leaving the division.

222nd Independent Infantry Brigade (Home)
 * 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
 * 8th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
 * 11th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Redesignated as the 222nd Infantry Brigade on leaving the division.

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1981 in Ireland

Events from the year 1981 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Patrick Hillery
 * Taoiseach:
 * Charles Haughey (FF) (until 30 June 1981)
 * Garret FitzGerald (FG) (from 30 June 1981)
 * Tánaiste:
 * George Colley (FF) (until 30 June 1981)
 * Michael O'Leary (Lab) (from 30 June 1981)
 * Minister for Finance:
 * Gene Fitzgerald (FF) (until 30 June 1981)
 * John Bruton (FG) (from 30 June 1981)
 * Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins
 * Dáil:
 * 21st (until 21 May 1981)
 * 22nd (from 30 June 1981)
 * Seanad:
 * 14th (until 16 July 1981)
 * 15th (from 8 October 1981)

Events

 * 6 February – Attacks on shipping in Lough Foyle (1981–82): Liverpool-registered coal ship Nellie M was bombed and sunk by a Provisional Irish Republican Army unit using a hijacked pilot boat in Lough Foyle.
 * 14 February – Stardust fire: A fire at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin, in the early hours killed 48 young people and injured 214. In 2024 these would be declared as unlawful killings.
 * 1 March – Bobby Sands began a hunger strike in the Maze Prison (Long Kesh) near Lisburn (Northern Ireland).
 * 5 March – The petrol strike ended when 800 tanker drivers resumed work.
 * 10 April – Hunger striker Bobby Sands was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
 * 2 May – Aer Lingus Flight 164, a Boeing 737 en route from Dublin to London was hijacked and ordered to fly to Tehran. The flight was diverted to Paris and the hijacker, Laurence Downey, was arrested.
 * 5 May – Bobby Sands died on the 66th day of his hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
 * 12 May – Francis Hughes, previously the most wanted man in Northern Ireland, died on the 59th day of his hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
 * 21 May – Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara both died on the 61st day of their hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
 * 11 June – 1981 Irish general election. Fianna Fáil lost seats and a Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition government was formed. Kieran Doherty, on hunger strike in the Maze Prison, was elected Teachta Dála (TD) for Cavan–Monaghan.
 * 30 June – Fine Gael leader Garret FitzGerald was elected Taoiseach as the 22nd Dáil Éireann assembled.
 * 8 July – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Joe McDonnell died on the 61st day of his hunger strike.
 * 25 July – During a fire at Portlaoise Prison, Irish Army Pte Thomas Metcalfe scaled a forty-foot (12 m) high drainpipe in darkness and rescued a comrade trapped on a blazing rooftop. He later received the Military Medal for Gallantry.
 * 1 August – Irish National Liberation Army member Kevin Lynch died on the 71st day of his hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
 * 2 August – Kieran Doherty, TD, died on the 73rd day of his hunger strike in Long Kesh.
 * 11 September – The Irish Sugar Company announced that it was to close its factory in Tuam, County Galway.
 * 19 December – Penlee lifeboat disaster: The Arklow-bound, Dublin-registered Union Star was lost on its maiden voyage off Cornwall. Sixteen lives were lost, eight from the Union Star and eight from RNLB Solomon Browne (ON 954) who died while attempting rescue.
 * 27 December – Supporters of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children marched in Dublin to demand a referendum for an anti-abortion amendment to the Constitution.
 * Undated
 * The Irish Green Party was founded as the Ecology Party of Ireland by Dublin teacher Christopher Fettes.

Arts and literature

 * 4 April – Ireland hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, presented by Doireann Ní Bhriain and aired on RTÉ Television.
 * 16 August – The first Slane Concert was held at Slane Castle featuring performers Thin Lizzy, Hazel O'Connor, The Bureau, Megahype, Rose Tattoo, Sweet Savage, and U2.
 * 14 September – Artist and writer Christy Brown was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
 * An association of artists, Aosdána, was established.
 * Molly Keane's novel Good Behaviour was published, her first for almost thirty years, and the first under her own name.
 * Rita Kelly's poetry Dialann sa Díseart was published.
 * Neil Jordan was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
 * English-born painter Derek Hill donated St. Columb's Rectory, near Churchill, County Donegal (his home since 1954), along with a considerable collection including work by Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Georges Braque, Graham Sutherland and Jack Butler Yeats, to the Irish State.
 * A proposed design for a new Áras an Uachtaráin (presidential mansion) was created by Rem Koolhaas, but was never built.

Association football

 * Ireland narrowly missed qualifying for the 1982 World Cup finals in Spain on goal difference.

Gaelic football

 * Kerry beat Offaly by 1–12 to 0–8 to win their fourth successive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. It was only the third time that a four-in-a-row has been achieved.

Golf

 * The Irish Open was won by Sam Torrance (Scotland).

Hurling

 * Offaly won their first All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, beating Galway by 2–12 to 0–15 in the final.

Births

 * 1 January – Jonas Armstrong, actor.
 * 26 January – Glen Fitzpatrick, soccer player.
 * 26 January – Colin O'Donoghue, Actor
 * 31 January – Dan Connor, soccer player.
 * 12 February – Lisa Hannigan, singer and musician.
 * 13 February – Liam Miller, soccer player (died 2018).
 * 24 February – Brian O'Callaghan, soccer player.
 * 26 February – Ronan Curran, Cork hurler.
 * 3 March – Ger Spillane, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 22 March – Brendan McGill, soccer player.
 * 23 March – Colin Cryan, soccer player.
 * 10 April – Des Byrne, soccer player.
 * 18 April – John O'Hara, soccer player.
 * 24 April – Maeve Higgins, comedian.
 * 25 April – Thomas Butler, soccer player.
 * 10 May – Barry Cahill, Dublin Gaelic footballer.
 * 14 June – Dominick Joyce, cricketer.
 * 1 July – Tadhg Kennelly, Gaelic footballer, Australian rules football player.
 * 16 July – Tom Kenny, Cork hurler.
 * 25 July – Fergal Devitt, professional wrestler.
 * 1 August – Stephen Hunt, soccer player.
 * 14 August – Brian Hogan, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 1 September – Niall McCarthy, Cork hurler.
 * 12 September – Philip Hughes, soccer player.
 * 14 September – Glenn Cronin, soccer player.
 * 24 September – Richie Byrne, soccer player.
 * 30 September – Cecelia Ahern, author, daughter of Bertie Ahern.
 * 4 October – Alan Bennett, soccer player.
 * 6 October – Graham Barrett, soccer player.
 * 10 October – Una Healy, singer-songwriter.
 * 12 October – John Thompson, soccer player.
 * 17 October – Steven Gray, soccer player.
 * 24 October – David McGill, soccer player.
 * 8 November – Niall O'Brien, cricketer.
 * 15 November – Kevin Grogan, soccer player.
 * 15 November – Brian Shelley, soccer player.
 * 17 November – Sean Godley, poet.
 * 22 November – Jonathan Douglas, soccer player.
 * 8 December – Aidan Price, soccer player.
 * 29 December – Paul Heffernan, soccer player.

Full date unknown

 * Derek Hardiman, Galway hurler.
 * Natasha Nic Gairbheith, 2004 Miss Ireland.
 * Seán O'Connor, Limerick hurler.
 * Kevin Tobin, Limerick hurler.
 * Orla Tobin, 2003 Rose of Tralee winner.

Deaths

 * 1 January – Sir Anthony Esmonde, 15th Baronet, Fine Gael TD and MEP (born 1899).
 * 21 January – Norman Stronge, Ulster Unionist Party politician and Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for 23 years (born 1894).
 * 8 April – Gretta Bowen, artist (born 1880).
 * 2 May – Tommy Moroney, soccer and rugby player (born 1923).
 * 17 June – Nora Connolly O'Brien, political activist, daughter of James Connolly (born 1892).
 * 2 July – Billy Gillespie, soccer player (born 1891).
 * 7 July – Donal Foley, Irish Times journalist.
 * 21 August – Eddie Byrne, actor (born 1911).
 * 24 August – Jackie Vernon, soccer player (born 1918).
 * 7 September – Christy Brown, author, painter and poet (born 1932).
 * 13 October – Oisín Kelly, sculptor (born 1915).
 * 15 October – James Auchmuty, historian (born 1909).
 * 17 November – Nano Reid, painter (born 1905).
 * December – Fred Kiernan, soccer player (born 1919).

Full date unknown

 * Muriel Brandt, painter (born 1909).

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1980 in Ireland

Events from the year 1980 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Patrick Hillery
 * Taoiseach: Charles Haughey (FF)
 * Tánaiste: George Colley (FF)
 * Minister for Finance:
 * Michael O'Kennedy (FF) (until 16 December 1980)
 * Gene Fitzgerald (FF) (from 16 December 1980)
 * Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins
 * Dáil: 21st
 * Seanad: 14th

Events

 * January – Jorge Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, arrived in Ireland for three months to learn English at Milltown College in Milltown, Dublin.
 * 9 January – Taoiseach Charles Haughey addressed the nation on television on the matter of worsening public finances.
 * 31 January – A new £20 note was introduced bearing an image of the poet W. B. Yeats.
 * 13 February – Ireland's first ATM machine opened, the Bank of Ireland Pass machine.
 * 17 February – The eighth century Derrynaflan Hoard, including the Derrynaflan Chalice, was discovered in a bog in Lurgoe, County Tipperary.
 * 24 March – The first dedicated bus lane in Dublin was opened by the CIÉ bus company on Parliament Street. The 250 metre contraflow lane allowed buses and emergency service vehicles to travel in the opposite direction to other traffic.
 * 19 April – Johnny Logan won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song "What's Another Year".
 * 1 August – Eighteen people died in the Buttevant Rail Disaster.
 * 8 August – Ten people died in the Central Hotel fire in Bundoran, County Donegal.
 * 15 August – The first section of the Wicklow Way – from Marlay Park to Luggala – was opened by Jim Tunney TD, Minister of State for Education.
 * August – Urney Chocolates factory in Tallaght, once the largest chocolate factory in Europe, closes.
 * 1 September – China's first Ambassador to Ireland, Madame Gong Pusheng, arrived in Dublin.
 * 6 October – Justice Mella Carroll was the first woman to reach the position of High Court Judge.
 * 27 October – Over 2,000 people took part in the first Dublin Marathon.
 * 1 November – The Health (Family Planning) Act 1979 came into operation, permitting the provision of contraceptives by prescription.
 * 2 November – The first edition of the Sunday Tribune newspaper went on sale.
 * 11 November – The National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin admitted its first 200 students to the college.
 * 8 December – Taoiseach Charles Haughey met with the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher at Dublin Castle. It was the first visit by a British prime minister since Irish Independence.
 * 19 December – Former Taoiseach Jack Lynch was conferred with the freedom of his native city, Cork.

Arts and literature

 * 23 September – Field Day Theatre Company presented its first production, the première of Brian Friel's Translations at the Guildhall, Derry.
 * Eavan Boland's poetry In Her Own Image was published in the United Kingdom.
 * Dermot Bolger's poetry The Habit of Flesh was published.
 * Shaun Davey's orchestral suite for uilleann pipes The Brendan Voyage was composed.
 * Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems 1965–1975 was published in the UK.
 * Ron Hutchinson's The Irish Play was first performed, in London.
 * Thomas Kinsella's Poems 1956–1973 was published in the UK.
 * Paul Muldoon's poetry Why Brownlee Left was published in the UK.
 * Tom Paulin's The Strange Museum, including "Pot Burial" and "Where Art Is a Midwife", was published in the UK.
 * Bernard Farrell was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
 * The Irish Film Board was established as a funding body.
 * W. A. McCutcheon's official survey The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland was published.

Golf

 * Carroll's Irish Open was won by Mark James (England).

Births

 * 11 January – Liam O'Brien, actor.
 * 14 January – Clive Clarke, soccer player.
 * 19 January – Kevin McHugh, soccer player.
 * 31 January – Gary Doherty, soccer player.
 * 1 February – Justin Kehoe, golfer.
 * 6 February – Bernard Dunne, boxer.
 * 28 February – Denise Gough, actress.
 * 3 March – Toiréasa Ferris, Sinn Féin politician.
 * 14 March – Colin Healy, soccer player.
 * 15 March – Caitríona Perry, RTÉ news reporter.
 * 3 April – Mairead Ronan, television presenter.
 * 9 April – Jennifer Zamparelli, comedian and television presenter.
 * 12 April – Brian McFadden, singer and songwriter.
 * 13 April – Jason Maguire, jockey.
 * 17 April – Richie Baker, soccer player.
 * 29 April – Kian Egan, singer with Westlife.
 * 21 May – Darragh Ryan, soccer player.
 * 28 May – Mark Feehily, singer with Westlife.
 * 3 June – Ciarán Walsh, visual artist.
 * 5 June – Stephen Lucey, Limerick hurler.
 * 6 June – Colin Moran, Gaelic footballer.
 * 16 June – Richie Foran, soccer player.
 * 19 June
 * Jean Carroll, Irish cricketer
 * Derek Geary, soccer player.
 * 3 July – Donal O'Grady, Limerick hurler
 * 8 July – Robbie Keane, soccer player.
 * 23 July – Graham Canty, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 13 August – Paul Crowley, soccer player.
 * 22 August – Alan Reilly, soccer player.
 * 12 September – Richie Partridge, soccer player.
 * 15 September – Dean Delany, soccer player.
 * 28 September – Danny O'Connor, soccer player.
 * 3 October – Danny O'Donoghue, musician.
 * 8 October – Tony Buckley, rugby player.
 * 27 October – Peter Murphy, soccer player.
 * 29 October – Derek Kavanagh, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 14 November – James Ryall, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 17 December – Conor Armstrong, cricketer.
 * 22 December – Noel Hickey, Kilkenny hurler.

 * Full date unknown
 * Brian Geary, Limerick hurler.
 * Mark O'Riordan, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

 * 26 January – John Doherty, fiddle player (born 1900).
 * 14 March – Gustavus Kelly, cricketer (born 1901).
 * 2 May – Cecile O'Rahilly, scholar of the Celtic languages and writer (born 1894).
 * 14 May – Christine Longford, playwright (born 1900 in England).
 * 11 June – William J.E. Jessop, professor, represented Dublin University in the Seanad from 1951 to 1973.
 * 25 June – James Hamilton Delargy, folklorist.
 * 2 July – Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (born 1897).
 * 5 July – A. J. Potter, composer (born 1918).
 * 13 July – Joseph Brennan, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (born 1912).
 * 24 August – Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 at Guyencourt, France (born 1888).
 * 5 September – Eric Cross, scientist.
 * 21 September – Mick Gill, Galway and Dublin hurler (born 1899).
 * 7 November – Frank Duff, founder of the Legion of Mary (born 1889).
 * 9 November – Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy, journalist and author (born 1931).
 * 10 November – John Moyney, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 north of Broembeek, Belgium (born 1895).
 * 22 November – Norah McGuinness, artist (born 1901).
 * 25 November – Joseph Sweeney, member of 1st Dáil representing West Donegal, (Pro Treaty) (born 1897).
 * 16 December – Roddy Connolly, Labour Party TD, Seanad member, son of James Connolly (born 1901).
 * 24 December – Arland Ussher, academic, essayist and translator (born 1899).
 * 30 December – Patrick Hennessy, painter (born 1915).

 * Full date unknown
 * Bill Delaney, Laois Gaelic footballer.
 * Jimmy McCambridge, soccer player (born 1905).

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1979 in Ireland

Events from the year 1979 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Patrick Hillery
 * Taoiseach:
 * Jack Lynch (FF) (until 11 December 1979)
 * Charles Haughey (FF) (from 11 December 1979)
 * Tánaiste: George Colley (FF)
 * Minister for Finance:
 * George Colley (FF) (until 11 December 1979)
 * Michael O'Kennedy (FF) (from 12 December 1979)
 * Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins
 * Dáil: 21st
 * Seanad: 14th

January

 * 2 January – Today, the lowest temperature recorded in Ireland in the 20th century was −18.8 °C (−1.8 °F) at Lullymore, County Kildare. (The lowest on record, in 1881, was −19.1 °C.)
 * 8 January – Whiddy Island Disaster: Fifty people were killed when an explosion destroyed the French oil tanker Betelgeuse at the Gulf Oil terminal on Whiddy Island in Bantry Bay.

March

 * 4 March – Legendary hurler Christy Ring was buried in Cork.
 * 9 March – Taxpayers across the country took to the streets to protest against the tax system.
 * 20 March – A huge anti-taxation demonstration was held in Dublin.
 * 30 March – Ireland ended Irish pound parity with sterling on joining the European Monetary System.

April

 * 12 April – Patrick McGilligan, the last surviving member of the first government of the Irish Free State, celebrated his 90th birthday in Dublin. He died seven months later, on 15 November.

May

 * 10 May – Petrol shortages due to a crisis in the Middle East caused long delays at petrol stations in Ireland.
 * 31 May – The Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Pádraig Faulkner, launched a second national radio station, RTÉ Radio 2. The music station was intended to appeal to "women at home, motorists, workers of industry as well as many young people" and to broadcast for 19½hours per day. Listeners heard the voice of Brendan Balfe introducing the first programme presenter, Larry Gogan, who began by playing Like Clockwork by the Boomtown Rats. The arrival of Radio 2 caused the original RTÉ Radio station to be renamed RTÉ Radio 1. In 1988, RTÉ Radio 2 was renamed 2FM, and was renamed again in 2000 as RTÉ 2FM.

June

 * 2 June – Protesters opposed to the building of civic offices on the site of Viking excavations in Wood Quay, Dublin, occupied the area.
 * 7 June – The first European Parliament election was held in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
 * 15 June – Aer Lingus's first female pilot, Gráinne Cronin, received her wings.

July

 * 14 July – In Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) supporters paraded silently in protest against the British Army's commandeering of part of the local football pitch. Former GAA president Con Murphy addressed the crowd.

August

 * 9 August – The first group of Vietnamese refugees arrived in Ireland.
 * 27 August
 * British retired Admiral Lord Mountbatten (a cousin to the Queen), and two 15-year-olds, his nephew and boatboy Paul Maxwell, were killed by a bomb planted on his boat in County Sligo where he was holidaying. The Dowager Lady Brabourne died the following day of her injuries.
 * Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers killed 18 British soldiers with two bombs in the Warrenpoint ambush.

September

 * 29 September – Pope John Paul II arrived at Dublin Airport for a three-day visit to Ireland. A quarter of the population, 1.25 million people, welcomed him at a mass in the Phoenix Park. Later, he spoke to 200,000 people at Drogheda, County Louth. He returned to Dublin in the evening where 750,000 people watched his motorcade passing through the city.
 * 30 September – The Pope addressed 285,000 people at a youth rally in Galway before travelling to Knock where a further 300,000 people heard him speak. He also visited Clonmacnoise.

October

 * 1 October – The Pope visited the Nunciature at Maynooth College and celebrated mass before 400,000 people in Limerick. He then left Shannon Airport for Boston in the United States.

November

 * 23 November – In Dublin, IRA member Thomas McMahon was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Lord Mountbatten.
 * 29 November – Taoiseach Jack Lynch greeted European Economic Community heads of government as they arrived for a summit meeting at Dublin Castle.

December

 * 5 December – Jack Lynch announced his resignation as Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil. He had led the party for thirteen years, spending nine as Taoiseach.
 * 7 December
 * Charles Haughey was elected leader of the Fianna Fáil party.
 * The new headquarters of the Central Bank of Ireland were officially opened on Dame Street in Dublin.
 * 11 December
 * Charles Haughey was elected Taoiseach by Dáil Éireann.
 * Máire Geoghegan-Quinn was appointed Minister for the Gaeltacht, the first woman to hold an Irish cabinet post since the First Dáil.
 * 31 December – 1979 was the worst year ever for industrial disputes in Ireland, costing the economy over 1,460,000 working days.
 * Undated – The Central Bank of Ireland postponed the issue of a new £20 note, blue in colour, bearing an image of the poet W. B. Yeats until January 1980, due to financial problems.

Arts and literature

 * 17 March – Bob Quinn's feature film, Poitín, starring Cyril Cusack and made entirely in Irish, premièred on RTÉ Television.
 * 21 July – The Boomtown Rats' single, "I Don't Like Mondays", written by Bob Geldof, was released in the United Kingdom.
 * The Crawford Art Gallery was established as a separate institution in the former Cork Customs House upon the relocation of the Crawford College of Art and Design.
 * Dublin City Council's Civic Offices, designed in brutalist style by Sam Stephenson.
 * Thomas Flanagan's novel, The Year of the French, was published.
 * John McGahern's novel, The Pornographer, was published.
 * Kate Cruise O'Brien was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her short stories, A Gift Horse.

Athletics

 * John Treacy won the world cross-country championship for the second time.

Golf

 * The Carroll's Irish Open tournament was won by Mark James (England).

Births

 * 14 January – Richard Sadlier, association footballer.
 * 16 January – Conor Cusack, Cork hurler.
 * 18 January – Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach and medical doctor.
 * 21 January – Brian O'Driscoll, captain of the Irish rugby union national team and captain of British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand in 2005.
 * 25 January – Ben O'Connor, Cork hurler.
 * 25 January – Jerry O'Connor, Cork hurler.
 * 31 January – Emmett J. Scanlan, actor.
 * 8 February – Martin Rowlands, English-born Irish association footballer.
 * 2 March – Damien Duff, association footballer.
 * 14 March – Gary Duggan, playwright.
 * 20 March – Amy Huberman, actress and writer.
 * 24 March – Donncha O'Callaghan, Rugby player.
 * 6 April – Michael Kavanagh, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 13 April – Tony Lundon, dancer and singer.
 * 13 April – Síle Seoige, television presenter.
 * 8 May – Mark Boyle, writer.
 * 9 May – Barry Quinn, association footballer.
 * 14 May – Ruby Walsh, National Hunt jockey.
 * 15 May – Mary Goode, hockey player.
 * 18 May – Justin Sheriff, hockey player.
 * 29 May – Andy Kirk, association footballer.
 * 30 May – Colm Foley, association footballer.
 * 31 May – Kieran O'Connor, Cork Gaelic footballer (died 2020).
 * 13 June – Alan Quinn, association footballer.
 * 16 June – Declan O'Brien, association footballer.
 * 5 July – Shane Filan, lead singer with Westlife.
 * 31 July – Damian Lynch, association footballer.
 * 1 August – Bernadette Flynn, dancer.
 * 16 August – Brian Ormond, singer and television host.
 * 28 August – Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, fiddle player.
 * 1 September
 * James O'Connor, association footballer.
 * Neil Ronan, Cork hurler.
 * 3 September – Kieran O'Reilly, actor.
 * 16 September – Barry Geraghty, jockey.
 * 21 September – Richard Dunne, association footballer.
 * 9 October – Chris O'Dowd, comedian and actor.
 * 4 October – Caitríona Balfe, actress.
 * 17 October – Leigh Arnold, actress.
 * 20 October – Paul O'Connell, international rugby player.
 * 20 October – Brian Begley, Limerick hurler.
 * 1 November – Henry Shefflin, Kilkenny hurling player.
 * 9 November – Thos Foley, slalom skier.
 * 12 November – Cian O'Connor, equestrian.
 * 22 November – Chris Doran, singer.
 * 24 November – Kirsteen O'Sullivan, television presenter.
 * 25 November – David Freeman, association footballer.
 * 1 December – Pearse O'Neill, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 9 December – Stephen McPhail, association footballer.
 * 20 December – David Forde, association footballer.
 * 21 December – Mike Ross, rugby union player
 * 31 December – Elaine Cassidy, actress.

 * Full date unknown
 * Raymond Daniels, Wicklow Gaelic footballer (died 2008).
 * Cathy Davey, alternative rock singer-songwriter.
 * Neil Delamere, comedian.
 * Ross McDonnell, filmmaker and photographer (died 2023).

Deaths

 * 20 January – Bill McCracken, association footballer and football manager (born 1883).
 * 21 January – T. C. Kingsmill Moore, senior counsel, represented Dublin University in the Seanad from 1943 to 1948 (born 1893).
 * 16 February – Jack Barrett, hurler (Kinsale, Cork, Munster) (born 1910).
 * 2 March – Christy Ring, hurler (Glen Rovers, Cork, Munster) (born 1920).
 * 18 April – Seán Brosnan, barrister, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) and Senator (born 1916).
 * 14 May – Peter Kerley, radiologist (born 1900).
 * 25 May – Desmond Clarke, librarian and writer (born 1907).
 * 29 May – Henry Coyle, Cumann na nGaedheal TD.
 * 2 August – John Leydon, Secretary, Department of Industry and Commerce.
 * 11 August – J. G. Farrell, novelist (born 1935).
 * 4 June – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, soldier and politician (born 1904).
 * 10 August – Joseph O'Doherty, Sinn Féin member of parliament, Fianna Fáil TD and senator (born 1891).
 * 10 September – Daniel Costigan, former Garda Síochána Commissioner.
 * 15 November – Patrick McGilligan, Cumann na nGaedheal/Fine Gael TD and cabinet minister (born 1889).
 * 17 December – Harold Jackson, cricketer (born 1888).

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Guinea national football team

The Guinea national football team (French:  Équipe de football de Guinée) represents Guinea in men's international football and it is controlled by the Guinean Football Federation. They have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals, and their best finish in the Africa Cup of Nations was runners-up in 1976. The team reached the quarter-finals in four recent tournaments (2004, 2006, 2008 and 2015). The team represents both FIFA and Confederation of African Football (CAF).

History
Guinea made their footballing debut in an away friendly on 9 May 1962, losing 2–1 against Togo. In 1963, Guinea entered its first qualification campaign for an Africa Cup of Nations, the 1963 tournament in Ghana. Drawn in a two-legged qualifier against Nigeria, Guinea drew the first leg 2–2 away on 27 July, and on 6 October won 1–0 at home to win 3–2 on aggregate. They were later disqualified for using Guinean officials in the second leg, and Nigeria went through to the finals in their place. In 1965, Guinea entered the qualifiers for the 1965 African Cup of Nations in Tunisia and was placed in Group A with Senegal and Mali. On 28 February, they lost 2–0 in Senegal before beating them 3–0 at home on 31 March, Senegal's win over Mali allowed them to qualify instead of Guinea.

During the 1976 African Cup of Nations the Guinean team finished second to Morocco, only missing out on the championship by a point.

In 2001, FIFA expelled the country from the qualification process of the 2002 World Cup and 2002 African Cup of Nations due to government interference in football. They returned to international action in September 2002 after a two-year ban from competition. In the 2004 African Cup of Nations, Guinea reached the quarter-finals, scoring the first goal against Mali before ultimately losing 2–1, conceding the winning goal in the last minute of the match. Guinea reached the quarter-final stage again in the 2006 tournament, taking the lead against Senegal before losing 3–2. 2008 saw Guinea reach the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations for a third successive tournament, only to suffer a 5–0 defeat against Côte d'Ivoire.

In 2012, Guinea beat Botswana 6–1 in the group stage of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, becoming the first side to score six goals in an Africa Cup of Nations game since Côte d'Ivoire in 1970. The team subsequently exited the tournament at the group stage after a draw against Ghana.

On 4 January 2016, CAF lifted a ban on Guinea playing their home international in Guinea after it was declared free of Ebola by the U.N. World Health Organization in December 2015.

Results and fixtures
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Coaching history

 * 🇷🇴 Petre Moldoveanu (1975–77)
 * 🇫🇷 Serge Devèze (1992–93)
 * 🇧🇦 Boro Primorac (1994)
 * 🇺🇦 Mykhaylo Fomenko (1994)
 * 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Muntyan (1995–98)
 * 🇫🇷 Henri Stambouli (1998–99)
 * 🇫🇷 Bruno Metsu (2000)
 * 🇫🇷 Bernard Simondi (2000–01)
 * 🇫🇷 Michel Dussuyer (2002–04)
 * 🇫🇷 Patrice Neveu (2004–06)
 * 🇫🇷 Robert Nouzaret (2006–09)
 * Titi Camara (2009)
 * Mamadi Souaré (2009–10)
 * 🇫🇷 Michel Dussuyer (2010–15)
 * 🇫🇷 Luis Fernández (2015–16)
 * Lappé Bangoura (2016–18)
 * 🇧🇪 Paul Put (2018–19)
 * 🇫🇷 Didier Six (2019–2021)
 * Kaba Diawara (2021–)

Current squad
The following players were called up for the friendly match against Vanuatu and Bermuda on 21 and 25 March 2024, respectively.

Caps and goals are correct as of 2 February 2024, after the match against DR Congo.

Recent call-ups
The following players have been called up for Guinea in the last 12 months.

 * Notes
 * DEC = Player refused to join the team after the call-up.
 * INJ = Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury.
 * PRE = Preliminary squad.
 * RET = Player has retired from international football.
 * SUS = Suspended from the national team.
 * WD = Player withdrew from the squad for non-injury related reasons.

Records

 * Players in bold are still active with Guinea.

Continental tournaments

 * Coppa Africa.svg Africa Cup of Nations
 * Runners-up (1): Silver medal africa.svg 1976

Other tournaments

 * Amilcar Cabral Cup
 * Champions (5): 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988, 2005
 * Runners-up (1): 1989

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Northumberland County Division

The Northumberland County Division was a formation of the British Army in the Second World War, its headquarters were formed on 24 February 1941. It ceased to function on 1 December 1941, and the headquarters were disbanded on 21 December 1941. It was commanded by Major-General R. C. Money and was an infantry only formation consisting of three Independent Infantry Brigades (Home). Combat support, artillery, engineers etc., would be provided by other local formations. It was commanded by X Corps until 9 April, IX Corps until 30 November and War Office control from then until disbandment.

Order of Battle
All brigades were part of the division from 12 March to 30 November 1941.

202nd Independent Infantry Brigade (Home)

Commanded by Brigadier H. Pawle to 20 May 1941, Brigadier G.F. Gough to 11 November 1941, and then Lt-Colonel A.E. Belcher.
 * 11th Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool) – left 18 November 1941, to 225th Brigade
 * 12th Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool) – left 27 May 1941, to 225th Brigade
 * 11th Battalion, Green Howards – left 26 November 1941
 * 7th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment – left 26 November 1941
 * 9th (Garrison) Battalion, Green Howards – 14 to 30 November 1941, from 216th Brigade

The brigade headquarters was disbanded with the division.

216th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home)

Commanded by Brigadier T.E.M. Battersby to 1 July 1941, Brigadier W. Carden Roe to 29 October 1941, then Lt-Colonel H. Ross-Skinner.
 * 12th Battalion, Royal Scots left 21 October 1941
 * 13th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry left 17 November 1941
 * 11th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders left 6 October 1941
 * 9th (Donside) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders 11 October to 15 November 1941
 * 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders 11 to 31 October 1941
 * 9th (Garrison) Battalion, Green Howards 31 October to 14 November 1941, to 202nd Brigade

The brigade headquarters was disbanded with the division.

225th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home)

Commanded by Brigadier J.W. Pendlebury to 17 November 1941, then Lt-Colonel H.S. Crow.
 * 10th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
 * 14th Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool) left 9 February 1941
 * 9th Battalion, Border Regiment left 17 November 1941
 * 9th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment left 27 May 1941
 * 12th Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool) 28 May to 13 November 1941, from 202nd Brigade
 * 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry from 19 November 1941
 * 11th Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool) from 19 November 1941, from 202nd Brigade

The brigade headquarters was converted into the 35th Army Tank Brigade. Its remaining infantry battalions were converted to the armoured role.

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SVA

SVA is an initialism that may refer to:

Military

 * South Vietnamese army, unofficial colloquial name for the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
 * Student Veterans of America, an education non-profit organization that serves student veterans
 * Scottish Veterans Association

Science

 * Special visceral afferent, afferent nerves that develop in association with the gastrointestinal tract
 * SequenceVariantAnalyzer, a computer program for annotating and analyzing genetic variants
 * SINE-VNTR-Alu, a composite, hominid-specific retrotransposon
 * SVA, the Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) code for a Severe thunderstorm watch

Schools

 * Sandia View Academy, in Corrales, New Mexico, USA
 * School of Visual Arts, in Manhattan, New York City, USA
 * Shenandoah Valley Academy, in New Market, Virginia, USA

Sport

 * Scottish Volleyball Association, the national governing body for volleyball in Scotland

Other

 * Student Volunteer Army, a volunteer organisation based at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
 * ICAO designator for Saudi Arabian Airlines, a Saudi airline
 * SVA, the IATA code for Savoonga Airport
 * Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera (Customs Surveillance Service), a Spanish law enforcement agency
 * Shareholder value added, a financial concept for the estimation of shareholder value
 * Single vehicle approval, performed by the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) to render a vehicle "street-legal" in the United Kingdom
 * Società Valdostana Automobili, a defunct Italian racing car manufacturer
 * National Veterinary Institute (Sweden) (Statens veterinärmedicinska anstalt)
 * Subject-verb agreement (in grammar)
 * Super Vertical Alignment, a type of Vertical Alignment (VA) panel that claims better viewing angles.
 * Svan language, ISO 639-3 code "sva"
 * SystemVerilog assertions

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Rampisham

Rampisham ( or ) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated approximately 11 mi northwest of the county town Dorchester. The village is sited on greensand in a valley surrounded by the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs. The parish includes the hamlet of Uphall northwest of the main village.

Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate for the population of Rampisham parish is 110. The principal means of making a living is agricultural, mainly grain production.

History
In 1799 a Roman pavement was found about 1 mi north-northwest of the church; it measured approximately 14 ft by 10 ft and was well preserved, having a pattern of concentric rings and a floral decoration, but it was destroyed by treasure-hunters.

In the Domesday Book in 1086 Rampisham was recorded as Ramesham. It was in the hundred of Tollerford, had seventeen households and the tenant-in-chief was Bishop Odo of Bayeaux.

Rampisham's parish church, dedicated to St Michael and All Saints, has a medieval south tower which was built in phases in the early 14th (1326) and 15th centuries. The rest of the building was largely rebuilt in two bouts of Victorian restoration: first in 1845–7 and then in 1858–60. Augustus Pugin was involved in the first restoration, designing a new east window and chancel. He also built a a rectory for the village, though this is now a private house. The second restoration involved an extension to the tower and a rebuilding of the nave; this was undertaken by John Hicks, possibly with assistance from a young Thomas Hardy.

A quarter of a mile north-northeast of the church is the base and part of the shaft of a 15th-century wayside cross.

Geography
Rampisham village is sited on greensand at an altitude of 125 to 145 m in a tributary valley of the River Frome. It is surrounded by the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs, which rise to 224 m at West Hill to the north. Measured directly, the village is 8 mi northeast of Bridport, 11 mi northwest of Dorchester and 8.5 mi south of Yeovil in Somerset.

Communications station
In November 1939 the BBC acquired 189 acre of land on Rampisham Down, a hill southwest of the village. It became the location of one of the main transmitters of the BBC World Service in Europe until it was shut in 2011. There were 26 transmitter pylons on the down.

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1978 in Ireland

Events from the year 1978 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Patrick Hillery
 * Taoiseach: Jack Lynch (FF)
 * Tánaiste: George Colley (FF)
 * Minister for Finance: George Colley (FF)
 * Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins
 * Dáil: 21st
 * Seanad: 14th

Events

 * 18 January – The European Court of Human Rights found Britain guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment of republican internees in Northern Ireland.
 * 19 January – The Fianna Fáil government dismissed the Garda Commissioner Edmund Garvey. No explanation was given.
 * 21 January – Johnny Giles resigned as manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team.
 * 23 March – The state funeral of former President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh took place in Sneem, County Kerry.
 * 31 March – Six thousand people marched through Dublin to Wood Quay to protest against the building of civic offices above an ancient Viking settlement.
 * 27 May – Brittany Ferries inaugurated a regular Cork–Roscoff service.
 * 1 June – David Cook of the Alliance Party became the first non-Unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast.
 * 21 June – Rosemary Smith established an Irish land speed record of 156.101mph on the Carrigrohane Straight in Cork, driving a seven-litre Jaguar XJ6.
 * 10 August – A new £10 note bearing an image of the writer Jonathan Swift was introduced.
 * 19 August – Over 5,000 people took part in a rally against a proposed nuclear power station in Carnsore Point, County Wexford.
 * 1 September – Dublin Institute of Technology was created on an ad hoc basis by the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee.
 * 2 November – Ireland's second national television channel, RTÉ 2, opened with a live broadcast from the Cork Opera House.
 * November – Cork Regional Hospital officially opened in Cork.
 * Undated – The first Supermac's fast food restaurant opened.

Arts and literature

 * Iris Murdoch is awarded the Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, The Sea.
 * Peter Sheridan is awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
 * Seán Ó Ríordáin's posthumous poetry collection Tar éis mo Bháis is published.
 * First broadcast of craft TV series Hands.

Athletics

 * 25 March – John Treacy wins the world cross-country championship in Glasgow.

Golf

 * Carroll's Irish Open is won by Ken Brown (Scotland).

Horse racing

 * Shergar wins The Derby (by a record ten lengths) and Irish Derby.

Births

 * 11 January – Adrian O'Connor, backstroke swimmer.
 * 12 January – David Worrell, soccer player.
 * 19 January – Simon Webb, soccer player.
 * 30 January – John Doyle, Kildare Gaelic footballer.
 * 21 February – Damien English, Fine Gael TD for Meath West.
 * 23 February – Jason Byrne, soccer player.
 * 7 March – John Miskella, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 9 March – Derek O'Connor, soccer player.
 * 16 March – Jemma Redmond, biochemist, pioneer of 3D bioprinting (died 2016).
 * 2 April – John Hoyne, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 4 April – Alan Mahon, soccer player.
 * 5 April – Stephen Murphy, soccer player.
 * 19 April – Geordan Murphy, International rugby player.
 * 23 April – Nicholas Murphy, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 24 April – Jimmy Coogan, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 29 April – David O'Loughlin, cyclist.
 * 4 May – Stanerra, racehorse.
 * 5 May – Paul Byrne, broadcast journalist.
 * 10 June – Karl Scully, tenor.
 * 21 June – Wayne Sherlock, Cork hurler.
 * 25 June – Kieran Kelly, jump jockey (killed in racing accident 2003).
 * 4 July – Derek Lyng, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 18 July
 * Shane Horgan, International rugby player.
 * Annie Mac(Manus), DJ and broadcast presenter.
 * 27 July – Brian Barry-Murphy, soccer player.
 * July – Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Cork hurler.
 * 8 August – Alan Maybury, soccer player.
 * 21 August – Alan Lee, soccer player.
 * 28 August – Barry Ryan, soccer player.
 * 27 September – John Paul Phelan, Fine Gael Senator.
 * 1 October – Barry Conlon, soccer player.
 * 2 October – Eddie Brennan, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 5 October – Shane Ryan, Gaelic footballer.
 * 9 October – Nicky Byrne, entertainer, singer with Westlife & TV host.
 * 17 October – Jerry Flannery, international rugby player.
 * 25 October – Chris Keane, rugby player.
 * 31 October – Ella McSweeney, radio and television producer
 * 9 November – Martin Comerford, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 15 December – Edele and Keavy Lynch, members of B*Witched.
 * 22 December – Eugene Cloonan, Galway hurler.

 * Full date unknown
 * Caoimhe Butterly, human rights activist.
 * Julie Feeney, singer songwriter.
 * Mike FitzGerald, Limerick hurler.
 * Richie Mullally, Kilkenny hurler.
 * Mike O'Brien, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

 * 23 January – Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil TD and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (born 1902).
 * 4 March – Emmet Dalton, Republican activist, soldier and film producer (born 1898 in the United States).
 * 6 March – Micheál MacLiammóir, actor and dramatist (born 1899 in London).
 * 21 March – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-general, Chief Justice of Ireland and fifth President of Ireland (born 1911).
 * 7 July – Mary Swanzy, painter (born 1882; died in London).
 * 28 August – Robert Shaw, actor and novelist (born 1927 in England).
 * 12 September – Wilfred Hutton, cricketer (born 1901).
 * October – Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (born 1897).
 * 5 November – Denis O'Dea, actor (born 1905).
 * 13 December – Jack Doyle, boxer, actor and singer (born 1913; died in London).
 * Full date unknown – Gabriel Hayes, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (born 1909).

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1977 in Ireland

Events from the year 1977 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Patrick Hillery
 * Taoiseach:
 * Liam Cosgrave (FG) (until 5 July 1977)
 * Jack Lynch (FF) (from 5 July 1977)
 * Tánaiste:
 * Brendan Corish (Lab) (until 5 July 1977)
 * George Colley (FF) (from 5 July 1977)
 * Minister for Finance:
 * Richie Ryan (FG) (until 5 July 1977)
 * George Colley (FF) (from 5 July 1977)
 * Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins
 * Dáil:
 * 20th (until 25 May 1977)
 * 21st (from 5 July 1977)
 * Seanad:
 * 13th (until 26 May 1977)
 * 14th (from 27 October 1977)

Events

 * 29 January – Seven Irish Republican Army bombs exploded in the West End of London, but there were no fatalities or serious injuries.
 * 4 February – British police discovered an IRA bomb factory in Liverpool.
 * 10 February – The three IRA terrorists involved in the 1975 Balcombe Street Siege in London were sentenced to life imprisonment on six charges of murder.
 * 21 February – A crater on the planet Mercury was named after the Irish poet W. B. Yeats.
 * 18 March – Six-year-old Mary Boyle from Kincasslagh vanished from her grandparents' farm near Ballyshannon in County Donegal.
 * 9 May – Ireland's first McDonald's restaurant opened on Grafton Street in Dublin.
 * 29 May – A massive peace rally took place in Belfast organized by Betty Williams, Mairéad Corrigan and Ciarán McKeown.
 * 15 June – Fianna Fáil won the 1977 general election with over 50% of the votes and a 20-seat majority
 * 5 July – The 21st Dáil elected Jack Lynch as Taoiseach.
 * 14 July – The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland was recognised as a college of the National University of Ireland.
 * 10 August – Queen Elizabeth II visited Northern Ireland under tight security as part of her Silver Jubilee celebrations.
 * 10 September – Irish horses were prevented from entering the United States because of an outbreak of venereal disease in Irish, British and French horses.
 * 18 September – In Ennis, County Clare, the Christian Brothers celebrated their 150th anniversary.
 * 3 October – Dunsink Observatory near Finglas was badly damaged by fire. Rubble removed to the nearby municipal dump included valuable Apollo 11 Moon rock fragments donated to Ireland by the American government.
 * 22 October – A new £1 note was circulated, a green banknote depicting the mythical Queen Maeve of Connacht.
 * 18 November – The National Council for Educational Awards was given degree awarding status.

Arts and literature

 * August – The Boomtown Rats' debut single "Lookin' After No. 1", written by Bob Geldof, was released in the United Kingdom.
 * The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature was awarded to Desmond Hogan.
 * Publication of Leland Bardwell's first novel Girl on a Bicycle in Dublin, set in 1940s Ireland.
 * Publication of Paul Muldoon's poetry collection Mules.
 * Publication of Niall Ó Dónaill's Irish-English dictionary Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla.

Sport

 * Carroll's Irish Open was won by Hubert Green (USA).
 * The Republic of Ireland national football team failed to qualify for the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina.
 * In September, Cork Hurlers completed the 'three in a row' by beating Wexford in the All-Ireland senior hurling final.
 * Dublin footballers beat Armagh in the highest ever scoring All-Ireland senior football final.

Births

 * January – Mickey O'Connell, Cork hurler.
 * 4 January – Dan Shanahan, hurler and coach.
 * 6 January
 * David Flynn, composer and musician.
 * Genevieve O'Reilly, actress.
 * 7 January – Tomm Moore, twice Oscar nominated animator and film maker.
 * 10 January – Michelle O'Neill, née Doris, politician, First Minister of Northern Ireland.
 * 7 February – Francis Barrett, boxer.
 * 15 February – Damien Faulkner, motor racing driver.
 * 16 February – Ian Clarke, software developer.
 * 3 March – Ronan Keating, singer.
 * 7 March – Ronan O'Gara, International rugby player.
 * 16 March – Donal Óg Cusack, Cork hurling goalkeeper.
 * 31 March – Finghin Collins, pianist.
 * 1 April – Pádraic Joyce, Galway Gaelic footballer.
 * 14 April
 * Stephen Grant, soccer player.
 * Trevor Malloy, soccer player.
 * 7 May – Lisa Kelly, singer.
 * 8 May – Joe Doyle, bass player.
 * 9 May – Paul Lynch, novelist.
 * 12 May – Barry Foley, Limerick hurler.
 * 16 May – Robbie Ryan, soccer player.
 * 22 May – Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Cork hurling and Gaelic football player
 * 1 June
 * Thomas Byrne, Fianna Fáil TD for Meath East.
 * Jamie Costin, race walker.
 * 15 June – P. J. Ryan, Kilkenny hurler.
 * 20 June – Hazel Kaneswaran, singer.
 * 21 June
 * Barry Archer, cricketer.
 * Michael Gomez, boxer.
 * 25 June – Daniel Kinahan, boxing promoter.
 * 2 July – Laura Woods, radio and television presenter.
 * 6 July – Pearse Doherty, Sinn Féin Senator.
 * 27 July – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, actor.
 * 9 August – Caroline Morahan, actress and television presenter.
 * 14 August – Tom Mulligan, Dublin Gaelic footballer (died 2007).
 * 17 August – Colin Hawkins, soccer player.
 * 18 August – Elaine Crowley, journalist, newsreader and television presenter.
 * 21 August – Anthony Lynch, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 25 August – Dessie Baker, soccer player.
 * 31 August – Ian Harte, international soccer player.
 * 7 September
 * Marcus Horan, international rugby player.
 * Timmy McCarthy, Cork hurling player.
 * 15 September – Gavin Smith, motor racing driver.
 * 15 November – Joe Deane, Cork hurling player.
 * 3 December – Kerri Ann, pop singer.
 * 11 December – Emma Ledden, television presenter.
 * 13 December – Peter Stringer, rugby union player for Munster and Ireland.
 * 27 December – Sinead Keenan, actress.

 * Full date unknown
 * John Browne, Cork hurler.
 * Stephen Byrne, Offaly hurler.
 * Ste V Roc, hip-hop artist and MC.
 * Anthony Ruby, artist.
 * Donie Ryan, Limerick hurler.
 * Donie Ryan, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

 * 5 January – Patrick Cogan, Independent TD (born 1903).
 * 17 April – William Conway, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh (born 1913).
 * 24 April – Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (born 1909).
 * 14 June – Joe Keppel, comic performer (born 1894).
 * 14 July – Fiona Plunkett, Republican (born 1896).
 * 17 July – Micky Cross, hurler (Claughaun, Limerick, Munster, national team) (born 1902).
 * 1 August – Bill Loughery, cricketer (born 1907).
 * 21 December – Seán Keating, painter (born 1889).
 * 23 December – Raymond McGrath, architect and interior designer (born 1903 in Australia).
 * 26 December – Jimmy Walsh, Kilkenny hurler (born 1911).

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1976 in Ireland

Events from the year 1976 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President:
 * Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (until 22 October 1976)
 * Patrick Hillery (from 3 December 1976)
 * Taoiseach: Liam Cosgrave (FG)
 * Tánaiste: Brendan Corish (Lab)
 * Minister for Finance: Richie Ryan (FG)
 * Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins
 * Dáil: 20th
 * Seanad: 13th

Events

 * 5 January –
 * Former Taoiseach, John A. Costello, died in Dublin aged 84.
 * Kingsmill massacre: Ten Protestant workmen were killed in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, by members of the South Armagh Republican Action Force, after loyalists shot dead six Catholic civilians in South Armagh the previous day.
 * 1 March – Merlyn Rees, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the Government of the United Kingdom, ended Special Category Status for those sentenced for crimes relating to civil violence in Northern Ireland.
 * 4 March – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention was formally dissolved, resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom in London.
 * 18 March – Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave and Mrs. Cosgrave were greeted by President Gerald Ford and Mrs. Betty Ford at the White House in Washington DC.
 * 31 March – Sallins Train Robbery: A large quantity of money was stolen from a CIÉ train at Sallins, County Kildare.
 * 3 April – The last passenger train ran on the Limerick–Claremorris line ending an 80-year north–south link along the western seaboard.
 * 17 May – Tim Severin in the boat Brendan set off from Dingle to America, tracing the route of the legendary 6th-century Irish monk, Brendan the Navigator.
 * 29 June – The highest temperature record in Ireland this century, 32.5 °C (90.5 °F) at Boora, County Offaly. The highest on record was in 1887.
 * July – The rock band Horslips gave a rooftop performance from Bank of Ireland headquarters on Baggot Street in Dublin.
 * 15 July – Four prisoners escaped when bombs exploded in the Special Criminal Court in Dublin.
 * 21 July – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, UK ambassador, and a civil servant, Judith Cooke, were killed by a landmine at Sandyford, County Dublin.
 * 1 September – The state of emergency in the Republic, which was legally in force since 1939, was lifted.
 * 23 September – The President, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, consulted with the Council of State for four hours on whether to refer the Emergency Powers legislation to the Supreme Court.
 * 22 October – President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh resigned following the 'thundering disgrace' remark from the Minister for Defence, Paddy Donegan.
 * 27 October – A new £5 note was introduced bearing an image of the 9th-century philosopher, Johannes Scotus Eriugena.
 * 20 November – National Peace Day was marked with marches, church services, and bell ringing.
 * 3 December – Patrick Hillery was inaugurated as the sixth President of Ireland in St. Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle.
 * 10 December – Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan won the Nobel Peace Prize.
 * The Islamic Foundation of Ireland established the first mosque in Ireland, in Dublin.

Arts and literature

 * 25 September – The band U2 was formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, Dublin.
 * 9 December – Maeve Binchy's play End of Term premièred on the Abbey Theatre's Peacock Stage.
 * The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature was launched; Heno Magee was the first recipient.
 * John Banville's novel Doctor Copernicus was published.
 * Breandán Ó hEithir's novel Lig Sinn i gCathú was published and became the first Irish language book to top Ireland's hardback bestseller list.
 * The monthly journal Books Ireland was founded.

Golf

 * Carroll's Irish Open was won by Ben Crenshaw (USA).

Births

 * 10 January – Jason Sherlock, Dublin Gaelic footballer.
 * 6 February – Darragh Maguire, soccer player.
 * 10 February – Tony McDonnell, soccer player.
 * 12 February – Mundy (Edmond Enright), folk singer-songwriter.
 * 13 February – Denis Hickie, rugby player.
 * 17 March – Stephen Gately, singer and actor.
 * 20 April – Shay Given, international soccer player.
 * 24 April – Steve Finnan, international soccer player.
 * 15 May – Mark Kennedy, soccer player.
 * 25 May – Cillian Murphy, actor.
 * 29 May – Michael O'Donovan, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 31 May – Colin Farrell, actor.
 * 2 June – Dáithí Ó Sé, television host.
 * 3 June – Enda Markey, Irish-Australian actor and producer.
 * 12 June – Tony Scully, soccer player.
 * 15 June – Gary Lightbody, alternative rock singer (Snow Patrol).
 * 29 June – Duncan O'Mahony, Canadian football punter and placekicker.
 * 3 July – Shane Lynch, singer and actor.
 * 8 July – David Wallace, rugby player.
 * 9 July – Ollie Canning, Galway hurler.
 * 14 July – Kirsten Sheridan, film director and screenwriter.
 * 23 July – Brian Carney, rugby player.
 * 11 August – Claire Byrne, journalist and television presenter.
 * 18 August – Robbie Murray, boxer.
 * 29 August – Joseph Armstrong, boxer.
 * 16 September – Liz Bonnin, television presenter.
 * 18 September – Adam Mates, pop singer (OTT).
 * 4 October – Owen Heary, soccer player.
 * 15 October – Paul Mooney, cricketer.
 * 19 October – Alan Quirke, Cork Gaelic footballer.
 * 20 October – John Leonard, Dublin Gaelic footballer.
 * 21 October – Andrew Scott, actor.
 * 29 October – Mark Sheehan, musician.

 * Full date unknown
 * Paddy Christie, Dublin Gaelic footballer.
 * Kevin Flynn, Dublin hurler.
 * Donal Ryan, novelist.

Deaths

 * 5 January – John A. Costello, barrister, Attorney General, Fine Gael TD and twice Taoiseach (born 1891).
 * 19 January – John Hunt, antiquarian (born 1900 in England).
 * 23 January – David Sullivan, labour leader in USA (born 1904).
 * 2 February – Gardner Budd, lawyer.
 * 6 February – Dan Kennedy, Kilkenny hurler (born 1926).
 * 12 February – Frank Stagg, Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker for 62 days in Wakefield Prison (born 1942).
 * 28 February – Pat Hone, cricketer (born 1886).
 * 29 February – Liam Cunningham, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1915).
 * 8 March – Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, peer and gambler (born 1892).
 * 13 April
 * Willie Hough, Limerick hurler (born 1892).
 * Noel Lemass, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1929).
 * 4 May – Hugh Delargy, British Labour Party politician and MP (born 1908).
 * 27 June – Derrick Kennedy, cricketer (born 1904).
 * 11 July – Michael Hayes, pro-treaty TD, Cabinet Minister, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann member (born 1889).
 * 22 July – Jim Ganly, cricketer and rugby player (born 1904).
 * 29 July – Knox Cunningham, barrister, businessman and Ulster Unionist politician (born 1909).
 * 12 September – Reginald Lyons, cricketer (born 1922).
 * 7 October – Michael O'Neill, nationalist politician and MP (born 1909).
 * 15 October – James Ennis, cricketer (born 1900).
 * 31 October – Eileen Gray, architect and designer (born 1878).
 * 2 November – Walter Starkie, author and translator (born 1894).
 * 14 November – Frederick Alfred Pile, soldier and politician (born 1884).
 * 4 December – W. F. McCoy, Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland (born 1886).

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South of Sideways

South of Sideways is the third studio album by American hard rock band Edgewater, released on April 6, 2004. It is the band's first album on a major label and includes tracks from their previous independent albums.

Musically, the album incorporates heavy guitar riffing, akin to Edgewater's numerous contemporaries, with an emphasis on melody. Digital effects are also evident in the background of various tracks. Moseman's vocals typically dwell in the realm of clean or heated singing but occasional boast drawn-out screams which give the album its alternative metal and nu metal edge.

The album's lone single, "Eyes Wired Shut", was included on the soundtrack for the 2004 film The Punisher. It was also the official theme song for WWE Backlash 2004.

Track listing
All music written by Edgewater.
 * 1) "Inhale" – 3:30
 * 2) "Science of It All" – 3:55
 * 3) "Eyes Wired Shut" – 3:16
 * 4) "Neglected" – 4:10
 * 5) "Break Me Out" – 3:54
 * 6) "The Story of..." – 3:17
 * 7) "Tres Quatros" – 5:32
 * 8) "Sweet Suffocation" – 3:16
 * 9) "One Perfect Something" – 3:38
 * 10) "Circles" – 3:53
 * 11) "Quitter" – 4:16
 * 12) "Lifter" – 5:05

Personnel

 * Matt Moseman - vocals
 * Justin Middleton - guitar
 * Micah Creel - guitar
 * Ricky Wolking - bass
 * Jeremy "Worm" Rees - drums

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1975 in Ireland

Events in the year 1975 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
 * Taoiseach: Liam Cosgrave (FG)
 * Tánaiste: Brendan Corish (Lab)
 * Minister for Finance: Richie Ryan (FG)
 * Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins
 * Dáil: 20th
 * Seanad: 13th

Events

 * January–June – Ireland held Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time.
 * 7 January – Sinéad de Valera, wife of the former president, died in Dublin aged 96.
 * 30 January – Charles Haughey was brought back onto the Fianna Fáil party front bench.
 * 14 March – Pierre Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, paid a brief visit to Ireland and held bilateral talks at Dublin Castle.
 * 17 April – Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, and Our Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort, became recognised colleges of the National University of Ireland.
 * 18 June – Danny O'Hare became acting director of the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin; a day later, the governing body first met.
 * 31 July – Miami Showband killings: Three members of The Miami Showband and two paramilitaries were killed in an Ulster Volunteer Force ambush in County Down as they returned home to Dublin from playing at a dance in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.
 * 29 August – Former revolutionary, Taoiseach, and President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera died in Dublin aged 92. The government announced a day of mourning.
 * 3 October – Dutch industrialist and Limerick factory owner Tiede Herrema was kidnapped.
 * 12 October – Oliver Plunkett, the 17th-century Archbishop of Armagh, was canonised by Pope Paul VI in Rome.
 * 21 October – Tiede Herrema was located with his kidnappers in Monasterevin, County Kildare and a police siege began.
 * 18 November – The Tiede Herrema kidnap siege ended.
 * 28 December – George Best played a League of Ireland match for Cork Celtic against Drogheda.

Arts and literature

 * 14 May – Cork-born writer Patrick Galvin's We Do It For Love, a satire on The Troubles, opened at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
 * 7 October – Tom Murphy's play The Sanctuary Lamp opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin to religious controversy.
 * Leland Bardwell, Pearse Hutchinson, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Macdara Woods founded the literary publication Cyphers.
 * Garry Hynes, Mick Lally, and Marie Mullen founded the Druid Theatre Company in Galway.
 * Lillias Mitchell founded the Irish Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers.
 * Publications:
 * Eavan Boland's collection of poems The War Horse was published.
 * Paul Durcan's collection of poems O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was published.
 * John McGahern's novel The Leavetaking was published.
 * John Ryan's memoir Remembering How We Stood was published.

Golf

 * The Carroll's Irish Open golf tournament was won by Irish player Christy O'Connor Jnr.

Births

 * 1 January – Lorraine Pilkington, actress.
 * 24 January – Marie McMahon, long-distance runner
 * 12 February – Andrew Myler, association football player.
 * 1 March – Tara Blaise, singer.
 * 17 April – Mark Foley, Limerick hurler.
 * 19 April – Hugh O'Conor, actor.
 * 25 April – Dara Ó Cinnéide, Kerry Gaelic footballer.
 * 10 May – Clodagh McKenna, cookery writer and presenter.
 * 10 June – Seánie McGrath, Cork hurler.
 * 6 August – Willie Boland, association football player.
 * 25 August – Pat Mulcahy, Cork hurler.
 * 28 August – Gareth Farrelly, association football player.
 * 15 September – Owen Butler, cricketer.
 * 2 October – Girvan Dempsey, rugby player.
 * 7 November – Ollie Moran, Limerick hurler.
 * 16 December – Graham Lee, jockey.
 * 18 December – David O'Doherty, comedian.
 * 20 December – Graham Hopkins, drummer.

 * Full date unknown
 * David Kitt, musician.
 * Paul Murray, novelist.

Deaths

 * 7 January – Sinéad de Valera, writer and wife of former president, Éamon de Valera (born 1878).
 * 23 February – Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist, and theatre manager, member of First Dáil, and Cabinet minister (born 1889).
 * 27 February – John Vincent Holland, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Guillemont, France (born 1889).
 * 21 April – James Kempster, cricketer (born 1892).
 * 23 April – Michael Carty, Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála (TD) (born 1916).
 * 28 April – Tom Dreaper, horse trainer.
 * 29 April – Arthur Blair-White, cricketer (born 1891).
 * 10 May – Michael Tierney, Cumann na nGaedheal party TD, Fine Gael party member of Seanad Éireann (Senate) and President of University College Dublin (born 1894).
 * 27 May – Robert Collis, physician and writer (born 1900).
 * 24 June – Frank MacDermot, barrister, soldier, banker, and politician (born 1886).
 * 31 July – Dan "Sandow" O'Donovan, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (b. c1895).
 * 9 August – Maurice Gorham, journalist and broadcasting executive (born 1902).
 * 10 August – Robert Barton, Sinn Féin party Member of Parliament, Cabinet minister, and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (born 1881).
 * 29 August – Éamon de Valera, former Taoiseach and President of Ireland (born 1882).
 * 2 October – Seamus Murphy, sculptor (born 1907).
 * 25 October – Padraig Marrinan, artist (born 1906).
 * 26 October – William Teeling, author, traveller and UK politician (born 1903).
 * 25 November – Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (born 1895).
 * 14 December – George Harman, cricketer and rugby player (born 1874).

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Metro (Oregon regional government)

Metro is the regional government for the Oregon portion of the Portland metropolitan area, covering portions of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties. It is the only directly elected regional government and metropolitan planning organization in the United States. Metro is responsible for overseeing the Portland region's solid waste system, general planning of land use and transportation, maintaining certain regional parks and natural areas, and operating the Oregon Zoo, Oregon Convention Center, Portland's Centers for the Arts, and the Portland Expo Center. It also distributes money from two voter-approved tax measures: one for homeless services and one for affordable housing.

History and evolution
Metro in its current form evolved from Columbia Region Association of Governments (CRAG) (1966–1978) and a predecessor Metropolitan Service District (MSD) (1957–1966). Measure 6, a 1978 statewide ballot measure established Metro, effective January 1, 1979. In 1992 voters approved a home-rule charter that identified Metro's primary mission as planning and policy making to preserve and enhance the quality of life and the environment, and changed the agency's name to Metro. This charter was amended in November 2000 when Ballot Measure 26-10 was passed by voters, although the principal changes did not take effect until January 2003. The measure eliminated the Executive Office and reorganized executive staff. The position of Executive Officer, elected by voters, was merged with that of council presiding officer, chosen annually by fellow Metro councilors, creating the position of Metro Council President. Metro's first president was David Bragdon, who served in the office from January 2003 until September 2010.

Metro's scope has grown over time. It took over Glendoveer Golf Course, regional parks, pioneer cemeteries and the Expo Center from Multnomah County in 1994, and the City of Portland transferred management of its performing arts venues in 1989.

In 2020, Metro placed a measure on the May ballot intended to raise $250 million for homeless services. It was approved and was enacted in January 2021. Under it, individuals with earnings of over $125,000 annually and couples with earnings over $200,000 are subject to 1% marginal income tax. Businesses with a gross revenue over $5 million are also subject to a 1% business tax.

Regional Illegal Dumping Patrol
Regional Illegal Dumping Patrol or RID Patrol cleans up illegal dumping and it is the designated contact for the public to report illegal dumping on public property, such as furniture, hazardous waste and construction debris.

Planning

 * Provides land use planning and is responsible for maintaining the Portland-area urban growth boundary, a legal boundary which separates urban from rural land, and is designed to reduce urban sprawl. It coordinates with the cities and counties in the area to ensure a 20-year supply of developable land.
 * Serves as the metropolitan planning organization for the area, responsible for the planning of the region's transportation system. It is a separate organization from TriMet, which operates most of the region's buses and the MAX Light Rail system.
 * Responsible for the region's Geographic Information System (GIS), maintains the Regional Land Information System (RLIS).
 * Oversees a $652.8 million regional bond for affordable housing.

Operations Management

 * Manages more than 17,000 acres of natural areas and parks around the Portland region, including Blue Lake Regional Park, Chehalem Ridge Nature Park, Cooper Mountain Nature Park, Graham Oaks Nature Park, Oxbow Regional Park, Howell Territorial Park, Glendoveer golf course, the Sauvie Island and M. James Gleason Memorial Boat Ramps, Chinook Landing Marine Park and the Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area. It also manages 14 pioneer cemeteries, including Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery, Lone Fir Cemetery and Gresham Pioneer Cemetery.
 * Manages a closed landfill, St. Johns Landfill, and owns the two public garbage, hazardous waste and recycling transfer stations in the region. Metro also has responsibility for the ultimate disposal of the region's solid waste and regulates private transfer stations.
 * Operates the Oregon Convention Center, Oregon Zoo, Portland's Centers for the Arts, and Portland Expo Center.
 * It has the (so far, un-exercised) authority to take over operation of the regional transportation authority, known as TriMet.

Jurisdiction, leadership
Metro serves 24 cities, including Portland, in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties in Oregon, as well as unincorporated parts of those counties. The Metro Council consists of a president and six councilors, all directly elected by their districts, and nonpartisan. The incumbent president is Lynn Peterson, who assumed office January 7, 2019.

According to the 2020 census, the average district population for the districts used from 2011 to 2021 was 248,362 and the current population of the old districts is as follows (the populations for the newly drawn districts are yet to be determined):

Metro's approved 2020-21 Budget is $1.4 billion, with 979 FTE.

Regional plan
Metro is also the Portland regional planning organization and develops a regional master plan to coordinate future development. Metro's master plan for the region includes transit-oriented development: this approach, part of the new urbanism, promotes mixed-use and high-density development around light rail stops and transit centers, and the investment of the metropolitan area's share of federal tax dollars into multiple modes of transportation. Metro's master plan also includes multiple town centers, smaller versions of the city center, scattered throughout the metropolitan area.

In 1995 Metro introduced the 2040 plan as a way to define long term growth planning. The 2040 Growth Concept is designed to accommodate 780,000 additional people and 350,000 jobs by 2040. This plan has created some criticism from environmentalists, but few consider it a threat to Portland's legacy of urban growth management.

An April 2004 study in the Journal of the American Planning Association tried to quantify the effects of Metro's plans on Portland's urban form. While the report cautioned against finding a direct link between any one policy and a specific improvement in Portland's urban form, it showed strong correlation between Metro's 2040 plan and various west-side changes in Portland. Changes cited include increased density and mixed-use development as well as improved pedestrian/non-automobile accessibility.

title: Metro (Oregon regional government)