События в Ирландии в 1960 году

List of events in Ireland in 1960

Events in the year 1960 in Ireland.

13 January – The Broadcasting Authority Bill proposed to establish a national television service. 16 January – The last regular ship on the Cork–Glasgow crossing sailed, ending a 103 year old service. 3 February – Frederick Henry Boland received the support of the United States for the presidency of the General Assembly of the United Nations. 17 February – The Television Bill passed its final stage in Seanad Éireann (Senate). 26 February – Alitalia Flight 618: An airliner flying to New York crashed into a cemetery shortly after takeoff from Shannon Airport, killing 34 of the 52 people on board. 8 March – MV Plassy was wrecked off the coast of Inisheer in the Aran Islands. 23 April – The first canoe race (of what will later become known as the Liffey Descent) took place along the River Liffey in Dublin from Grattan Bridge to Butt Bridge. 27 May – The last barge on the Grand Canal left Dublin carrying Guinness beer to Limerick, ending a 156 year old service. 1 June – Radio Éireann was transferred from direct control of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs to a separate public authority. 8 November – Nine Irish Army soldiers serving with the United Nations were killed in the Congo. 22 November – Funerals took place for the soldiers killed in the Congo.

5 February – The film, Mise Éire, by George Morrison with music by Seán Ó Riada, had its Dublin première at the Regal Cinema following a 27 January première at Gweedore in County Donegal, the first feature length Irish language film on general release. 13 February–March – Orson Welles appeared for the last time in a stage production, his adaptation Chimes at Midnight with the Gate Theatre Company (with which he began his professional career in 1931), opening at the Grand Opera House in Belfast, and transferring to the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. 23 August – Samuel Beckett's play The Old Tune (a translation of Pinget's La Manivelle into a Dublin setting) was first broadcast by the BBC. Patrick Kavanagh's poetry collection, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was published. Edna O'Brien's novel The Country Girls was published; it was banned in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board. Eoghan Ó Tuairisc's novel Murder in Three Moves was published.

Shelbourne F. C. won the FAI Cup.

21 January – Matt Moore, film actor (born 1888). 13 February – Seán McLoughlin, nationalist and communist activist (born 1895). 26 February – Amby Power, Clare hurler (born 1887). 12 May – Augustine Kelly, cricketer (born 1894). 13 June – Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (born 1881). 7 July – Francis Browne, Jesuit priest and photographer (born 1880). 20 July – Galbraith Lowry Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, soldier and Deputy Lieutenant for County Fermanagh (born 1913). 27 July – Ethel Lilian Voynich, novelist and musician (born 1864). 23 September – Henry Barniville, member of the Seanad from 1922 to 1960 representing the National University of Ireland. 6 October – Hubert de Burgh, cricketer (born 1879). 23 October – Seumas MacManus, writer (born 1867). 25 October – Harry Ferguson, early aviator and developer of the modern agricultural tractor (born 1884). 14 December – Michael J. Stack, U. S. Representative from Pennsylvania (born 1888). Undated – Annie O'Hanlon, last known speaker of the Leinster dialect of the Irish language.