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Events from the year 1980 in Ireland.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

  • January – Jorge Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, arrived in Ireland for three months to learn English at Milltown College in Milltown, Dublin.[1]
  • 9 January – Charles Haughey addressed the nation on television on the matter of worsening public finances.
  • 31 January – W. B. Yeats featured on the new £20 note, blue in colour.
  • 13 February – Ireland's first ATM, the Bank of Ireland Pass, opens.
  • 25 March – CIÉs first bus lane came into operation on Parliament Street in Dublin.
  • 19 April – Johnny Logan won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song "What's Another Year".
  • 1 May – the Derrynaflan Chalice was discovered in a bog in County Tipperary.
  • 1 August – eighteen people died in the Buttevant Rail Disaster.
  • 8 August – ten people died in the Central Hotel Fire, Bundoran.
  • 15 August - The first section of the wicklow Way – from Marlay Park to Luggala – was opened by Jim Tunney, T. D., Minister of State for Education on 15 August 1980.
  • 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 RTÉ Radio 2 Dublin City Marathon.
  • 1 November – the controversial 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 hits the shops.
  • 11 November – the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin, admitted its first students to the college, a total of two hundred.
  • 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.
  • The Wicklow Way was designated as the first waymarked long-distance walking trail in Ireland.[2]

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.[3]
  • 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.[3]
  • Paul Muldoon's poetry Why Brownlee Left was published in the UK.[3]
  • Tom Paulin's The Strange Museum, including "Pot Burial" and "Where Art Is a Midwife", was published in the UK.[4]
  • Bernard Farrell was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.[5]
  • The Irish Film Board was established as a funding body.
  • W. A. McCutcheon's official survey The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland was published.

Sport[]

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.
  • 13 February - , Social Media
  • 28 February – Denise Gough, actress.
  • 3 March – Toiréasa Ferris, Sinn Féin politician.
  • 14 March – Colin Healy, soccer player.
  • 15 March – Caitríona Perry, RTE 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.
  • 18 April – Kevin Doherty, 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.
  • 30 August – Damien Brennan, soccer player.
  • 12 September – Richie Partridge, soccer player.
  • 15 September – Dean Delany, soccer player.
  • 28 September – Danny O'Connor, soccer player.
  • 8 October – Tony Buckley, rugby player.
  • 27 October – Peter Murphy, soccer player.
  • 28 October – Darren McKenna, 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

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 , 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

See also[]

  • 1980 in Irish television

References[]

  1. ^ The year Pope Francis came to live in Dublin Irish Independent, 2013-03-30.
  2. ^ "The Wicklow Way". Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  3. ^ a b c Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  4. ^ Crotty, Patrick, ed. (1995). Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. ISBN 0-85640-561-2.
  5. ^ O'Donnell, Mary (1 February 1992). "A scathing scourge of suburbia". The Irish Times.
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