Events
- January–June - Ireland holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time.
- January 7 - Sinéad Bean de Valera dies in Dublin aged 96.
- January 30 - Charles Haughey is brought back onto the Fianna Fáil front bench.
- February 18 - Aer Lingus hostesses get a new uniform.
- April 17 - Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, and Our Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort, become recognised colleges of the National University of Ireland.
- June 18 - Dr Danny O'Hare is made acting director of the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin; a day later, the governing body first meets.
- July 31 - Miami Showband killings: Three members of The Miami Showband, together with two paramilitaries, are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force ambush in County Down as they return home to Dublin from playing at a dance in Banbridge.
- August 29 - Éamon de Valera dies in Dublin aged 92. His life has spanned the history of the Irish State: he was a leader of the Easter Rising in 1916, served as Taoiseach for 21 years and President for a further 14. The government announces a day of mourning.
- October 3 - Dutch industrialist Dr. Tiede Herrema, who owns a factory in Limerick, is kidnapped.
- October 12 - Oliver Plunkett, the 17th-century Archbishop of Armagh, is canonised by Pope Paul VI in Rome.
- October 21 - Dr. Tiede Herrema is located with his kidnappers in Monasterevin, County Kildare.
- November 18 - The Tiede Herrema kidnap siege ends.
- December 28 - George Best plays a League of Ireland match for Cork Celtic against Drogheda.
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“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
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—Marilyn French (b. 1929)
“On the most profitable lie, the course of events presently lays a destructive tax; whilst frankness invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)