Events
- 15 February - Senator Owen Sheehy-Skeffington introduces a motion calling for the prohibition of all corporal punishment for girls in Irish national schools.
- 2 April - President Seán T. O'Kelly unveils a bust of Countess Markievicz in St Stephen's Green, Dublin.
- 1 May - The Minister for Education Richard Mulcahy introduces the debate on a separate government department for the Gaeltacht.
- 21 May - President Seán T. O'Kelly opens the first Cork International Film Festival.
- 29 May - T. K. Whitaker is appointed new Secretary at the Department of Finance.
- 12 August - The Gaelic Athletic Association postpones the All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals due to an outbreak of polio.
- 21 November - Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children is opened in Crumlin, Dublin.
- 30 November - Petrol rationing is due to be introduced from 1 January due to the crisis in the Suez.
- 1 December - At the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, Ronnie Delany wins Ireland's first gold medal for 24 years.
- 12 December - The Irish Republican Army launches its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland with the bombing of a BBC relay transmitter in County Londonderry, burning of a courthouse in Magherafelt by a unit led by 18-year-old Seamus Costello and of an Ulster Special Constabulary post near Newry and blowing up of a half-built British Army barracks at Enniskillen. A raid on Gough barracks in Armagh is beaten off after a brief exchange of fire.
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- The second Coimisiún na Gaeltachta redefines the boundaries of the Gaeltacht.
- Robert Briscoe becomes the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.
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