Events
- January 1 - 1954 is the first Marian year. There are many events and devotions to Our Lady and shrines and statues are erected in public places.
- January 11 - The Irish Council of the European Movement is formed in Dublin.
- January 19 - The government announces that the new Cork Airport will be built at Ballygarvan, four miles south of the city.
- February 19 - Captain Henry Harrison, the last surviving member of the party led by Charles Stewart Parnell, dies aged 87.
- April 20 - Michael Manning, aged 25, is executed in Mountjoy Prison. He is the last person to be judicially executed in the State.
- May 5 - At its headquarters in Kingsbridge, CIÉ signs a £4.75 million contract to replace its steam locomotives with diesels.
- May 16 - 30,000 march through Dublin in a huge Marian year procession, the city's greatest display of Catholic faith since the International Eucharistic Congress of 1932.
- May 18 - Fianna Fáil lose four seats in the general election. The second inter-party government under John A. Costello comes to power.
- June 12 - An Irish Republican Army unit carries out a successful arms raid on Gough barracks in Armagh signalling the renewal of IRA activity following a long hiatus.
- June 28 - Alfie Byrne is elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for the tenth time.
- July 5 - Dublin Corporation decides that Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street will not be removed.
- September 5 - 27 people die when KLM Flight 633 crashes two minutes after leaving Shannon Airport.
- September 8 - Marian College (Dublin) opened for the first time.
- October 16 - A marble plaque is unveiled at Westland Row, Dublin, to mark the centenary of the birth of Oscar Wilde.
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