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Events

1 January – 1954 is the first Marian year. There are many events and devotions to Our Lady and shrines and statues are erected in public places.

11 January – the Irish Council of the European Movement is formed in Dublin.

19 January – the government announces that the new Cork Airport will be built at Ballygarvan, four miles south of the city.

19 February – Captain Henry Harrison, the last surviving member of the party led by Charles Stewart Parnell, dies aged 87.

20 April – murderer Michael Manning, aged 25, is executed in Mountjoy Prison. He is the last person to be judicially executed in the state.

5 May – at its headquarters in Kingsbridge, CIÉ signs a £4.75 million contract to replace its steam locomotives with diesels.

16 May – 30,000 march through Dublin in a huge Marian year procession, the city's greatest display of Catholic faith since the International Eucharistic Congress of 1932.

18 May – Irish general election, 1954: Fianna Fáil lose four seats. The second inter-party government under John A. Costello comes to power when the members of the 15th Dáil assemble on 2 June.

12 June – an Irish Republican Army unit carries out a successful arms raid on Gough Barracks in Armagh signalling the renewal of IRA activity following a long hiatus.

28 June – Alfie Byrne is elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for the tenth time.

5 July – Dublin Corporation decides that Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street will not be removed.

5 September – 27 people die when KLM Flight 633 crashes two minutes after leaving Shannon Airport.

8 September – Marian College (Dublin) opened for the first time.

Undated

Entrepreneur Joe "Spud" Murphy (1923–2001) sets up Tayto to manufacture crisps.^[1]
The Evening Press newspaper is launched in Dublin.

Arts and literature

16 June – the first public celebration of "Bloomsday" takes place in Dublin. Writers Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin travel in a horse-drawn coach stopping at numerous pubs to retrace the steps of the characters from James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

16 October – a marble plaque is unveiled at Westland Row, Dublin, to mark the centenary of the birth of Oscar Wilde.

19 November – Brendan Behan's first play, The Quare Fellow, premières at the Pike Theatre, Dublin, to great reviews.

First Cork International Choral and Folk Dance Festival.^[2]

English-born painter Derek Hill settles at St Columb's Rectory, near Churchill, County Donegal.

Publication of Christy Brown's autobiography My Left Foot.

Publication of Iris Murdoch's first novel, Under the Net.

Births

3 January – Fintan Cullen, art historian and writer.

10 January – Bairbre de Brún, Sinn Féin MEP and first Sinn Féin politician to represent Northern Ireland in the European Parliament.

22 January – Ger Fennelly, Kilkenny hurler.

26 January – Sean O'Callaghan, Provisional Irish Republican Army member and Garda Síochána informer (died 2017).

8 March – Dermot Keely, soccer player and manager.

12 March – Francis Martin O'Donnell, United Nations official.

6 April – Billy Fitzpatrick, Kilkenny hurler.

11 April – Michael Lyster, RTÉ sports broadcaster.

15 April – Michael Willis, only official IRA member to escape from Crumlin Road prison.

25 April – Róisín Shortall, Labour Party TD for Dublin North-West.

29 April – Gavan O'Herlihy, actor.

30 April – Gerry Daly, soccer player.

5 May – Ger Henderson, Kilkenny hurler.

13 May – Johnny Logan, born Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard, singer and songwriter (born in Australia).

25 May – Daragh O'Malley, actor.

6 June – Tim O'Reilly, computer software promoter.

6 July – Tim Kennelly, Gaelic footballer with Kerry (died 2005).

11 July – Liam Thomas Quinn, priest and teacher.

23 July – Arthur Morgan, Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoner, Sinn Féin TD for Louth.

27 July – Pat Delaney, Offaly hurler.

28 July – Mikey Sheehy, Gaelic footballer (Kerry).

3 August – George Birmingham, Fine Gael politician.

5 August – Paddy Glackin, fiddle player.

12 August – Brian Cody, Kilkenny hurler, manager.

22 August – Jimmy Barry-Murphy, hurler and Gaelic footballer (St. Finbarr's, Cork, Munster).

8 September – Áine Brady, Fianna Fáil TD for Kildare North.

3 October – Mick Holden, Gaelic footballer and hurler (died in 2007).

8 October – Tony Ward, international rugby player and sports journalist.

16 October

Bertie Óg Murphy, Cork hurler and manager.
Noel Slevin, journalist.

2 November – Martin Cullen, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Waterford and Cabinet Minister.

11 December – Noel Lane, Galway hurler and manager.

17 December – Síle de Valera, Fianna Fáil TD representing Clare, Minister and MEP.

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Ballymoss, racehorse (died 1979).

Catherine Dunne, novelist.

Harry O'Donoghue, musician and songwriter.

Eugene Sheehy, Group Chief Executive of Allied Irish Bank Plc.

Deaths

2 February – Áine Ceannt, revolutionary activist and humanitarian (born 1880).

20 April – Michael Manning, carter, convicted of murder and hanged, last person executed in the Republic of Ireland (born 1929).

1 May – James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (born 1865).

2 May – Elinor Darwin, engraver and portrait painter (born 1871).

20 May – Roger Sweetman, barrister-at-law, member of 1st Dáil representing North Wexford (born 1874).

8 July – George Gardiner, boxer (born 1877).

11 September – R. M. Smyllie, editor of The Irish Times (born 1894 in Scotland).

16 September – James G. Douglas, member of the 1922 Seanad (born 1887).

21 October – T. V. Honan, merchant, Fianna Fáil member of the Seanad (born 1878).

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Joe 'Spud' Murphy|work=Daily Telegraph|date=5 November 2001|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/05/db02.xml|accessdate=2010-10-03}}
2. ^{{cite book|editor=Fleischmann, Ruth|title=Cork International Choral Festival 1954–2004: A Celebration|location=Cork|year=2004}}

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