# 1962 in Ireland

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Events in the year 1962 in Ireland.

## Incumbents

* President: Éamon de Valera
* Taoiseach: Seán Lemass (FF)
* Tánaiste: Seán MacEntee (FF)
* Minister for Finance: James Ryan (FF)
* Chief Justice: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
* Dáil: 17th
* Seanad: 10th

## Events

* 26 February – The Irish Republican Army officially called off its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland.
* 13 March – Irish artists left Dublin Airport for the Congo to entertain United Nations troops there.
* 17 March – President Éamon de Valera and his wife Sinéad had a private audience with Pope John XXIII in Rome.
* 5 April – A final train ran on the west Cork railway.
* 8 May – Irish troops left for a peace-keeping mission in the Congo.
* 6 July – Gay Byrne presented the first edition of The Late Late Show television programme on Telefís Éireann. He went on to present the show for 37 years.
* 13 July – Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant arrived in Dublin. He paid tribute to Irish soldiers who fought in the Congo.
* 21 August – Former United States President Dwight Eisenhower arrived in Belfast on a four-day visit to Ireland.
* 13 November – Aer Lingus air hostesses received new uniforms. The colours were fern-green and St. Patrick's blue.

## Arts and literature

* 30 June – The Theatre Royal, Dublin closed.
* 4 December – The first Jacob's broadcasting awards ceremony took place in Dublin.
* Irish folk music group the Abbey Tavern Singers was formed in Howth.
* Irish folk music band The Chieftains was formed by Paddy Moloney in Dublin.
* Irish folk music band The Dubliners was formed at O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin.
* Eavan Boland published 23 Poems while an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin.
* Ewart Milne's poetry A Garland for the Green was published.
* Eoghan Ó Tuairisc published his Irish language prose epic L'Attaque in Dublin.
* Cecil Woodham-Smith published her history The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845–1849.

## Sports
### Association football

* Shelbourne FC won the League of Ireland championship for the seventh time with a 1–0 play-off victory over Cork Celtic thanks to a Ben Hannigan goal.

## Births

* 1 January – Jamie O'Neill, author.
* 9 January – Ray Houghton, association football player, in Scotland to an Irish father.
* 2 March – Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, children's author and illustrator.
* 13 April – Harry Kenny, association football player.
* 7 May – Paul Kimmage, cyclist and sports journalist.
* 9 June – Bobby Browne, association football player.
* 15 June – Martin Earley, road bicycle racer.
* 26 June – Cyprian Brady, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central.
* 4 July – Martin Hayes, fiddle player.
* 11 July – Pauline McLynn, actress and writer.
* 14 July – Eamon Delaney, author and journalist.
* 19 July – Caitríona Ruane, Sinn Féin party Member of the Legislative Assembly and Minister for Education in Northern Ireland.
* 14 August
** Dan Boyle, former Green Party TD, senator.
** Peter Eccles, association football player.
* 1 September – Tony Cascarino, association football player.
* 11 October
** Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author.
** Eddie Hobbs, financial adviser and television presenter.
* 2 December – Kevin Brady, association football player.
* Full date unknown – Tom Spillane, Kerry Gaelic footballer.

## Deaths

* 1 February – Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal party member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach (chairperson) of the Seanad (born 1867).
* 13 March – Anne Acheson, sculptor (born 1882).
* 14 March – Eileen Costello, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad.
* 25 June – Robert Gwynn, cricketer (born 1877).
* 4 July – William Harman, cricketer (born 1869).
* 16 July – Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (born 1893).
* 24 July – Margaret Buckley, president of Sinn Féin party from 1937 to 1950 (born 1879).
* 26 October – Emily Anderson, British Foreign Office cryptanalyst, scholar of German and musicologist, in London (born 1891).