1950 in Ireland - Events

Events

  • 12 March - Llandow air disaster: 83 people die when a plane carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in South Wales.
  • 12 May - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
  • 1 July - Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, hitherto British Representative, Republic of Ireland becomes the first British Ambassador to Ireland.
  • 11 August - At a meeting of the European Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg Irish representatives vote against Winston Churchill's plan for a European Army.

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