Events
- January 9 - Charles Haughey addresses the nation by television on the matter of its worsening finances.
- March 25 - CIÉs first bus lane comes into operation on Parliament Street in Dublin.
- April 19 - Johnny Logan wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song "What's Another Year".
- May 1 - The Derrynaflan Chalice is discovered in a bog.
- August 1 - Eighteen people die in the Buttevant Rail Disaster.
- August 8 - Ten people die in the Central Hotel Fire, Bundoran.
- September 1 - China's first Ambassador to Ireland, Madame Gong Pusheng, arrives in Dublin.
- October 6 - Justice Mella Carroll is the first woman to reach the position of High Court Judge.
- October 27 - Over 2,000 people take part in the first RTÉ Radio 2 Dublin City Marathon.
- November 1 - The controversial Health (Family Planning) Act, 1979 comes into operation, permitting the provision of contraceptives by presecription.
- November 11 - National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin, admits its first students to the college, a total of two hundred.
- December 8 - Taoiseach Charles Haughey meets with the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Dublin Castle. It is the first visit by a British prime minister since independence.
- December 19 - Former Taoiseach Jack Lynch is conferred with the freedom of his native city, Cork.
- The Wicklow Way is designated as the first waymarked long-distance walking trail in Ireland.
- W. A. McCutcheon's official survey The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland is published.
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