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Events in the year 1969 in Ireland.

Incumbents

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Events

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January

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March

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  • 4 March – The Lichfield Report was issued. It proposed the creation of a "University of Limerick" which would be "orientated towards technological subjects".
  • 19 March – Ireland received its first loan from the World Bank.
  • 22 March – Civil rights demonstrations took place all over Northern Ireland.

April

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May

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  • 1 May – Major James Chichester-Clark succeeded Terence O'Neill as the Northern Irish Prime Minister.
  • 7 May – The Minister for Finance, Charles Haughey, announced tax exemptions for painters, sculptors, writers, and composers on earnings gained from works of cultural merit.
  • 17 May – The first exhibition in Ireland of works by Pablo Picasso opened at the Exhibition Hall in Trinity College Dublin. Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, drawings, and graphics were displayed until the show ended on August 30th.[2][3]

June

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July

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  • 20 July – Telefís Éireann, which normally stopped broadcasting by midnight during the 1960s, transmitted its first all-night programme when the first men landed on the Moon at 9.17 pm, Irish time. The moonwalk began at 3.39 the next morning and ended at 6.11. The entire broadcast was hosted live by Kevin O'Kelly, working alone in front of the camera, and he won a Jacob's Television Award for his performance.[6]
  • 21 July –
    • A message of goodwill from President Éamon De Valera, along with messages from 72 other heads of state, was placed on the surface of the moon by astronaut Buzz Aldrin during the first moonwalk, performed during the Apollo 11 mission. De Valera's message read: "May God grant that the skill and courage which have enabled man to alight upon the Moon will enable him, also, to secure peace and happiness upon the Earth and avoid the danger of self-destruction." The messages of world leaders were photographed and micro-reduced in size 200 times, then inscribed on a half-dollar-coin-sized silicon disc which was encased in an aluminium capsule to protect it. The messages are readable through a microscope.[7]
    • President de Valera sent U.S. President Richard Nixon a telegram of congratulations and admiration following the first crewed Moon landing by Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

August

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September

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  • 10 September – The British Army started to construct the first of the Northern Ireland 'Peacelines' on the Falls–Shankill divide in Belfast, marking the first of many 'Peacewall'[15] constructions across the city.

October

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  • 10 October – The Hunt Committee Report recommended an unarmed civil police force in Northern Ireland and abolition of the Ulster Special Constabulary.
  • Undated – The grave of Wolfe Tone in Sallins, County Kildare was bombed by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).[16][17]

December

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  • 1 December – The Fianna Fáil party paid tribute to former taoiseach and party leader Seán Lemass as his forty-five years of public life came to an end.
  • 26 December – One of the winged statues at the base of the O'Connell Monument in Dublin was destroyed in the early hours of the morning by a time-bomb that had been placed behind it the previous day by the UVF. No injuries were reported.[17][18]
  • 28 December – In the early hours of the morning, a car bomb exploded near the entrance to the Central Detective Bureau in Ship Street, near Dublin Castle. Nobody was injured.[19]
  • 31 December – The half crown coin was permanently withdrawn from circulation.
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Arts and literature

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Sports

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Gaelic Football Finals: Kerry 0–10 Offaly 0–7 Hurling Finals: Kilkenny 2–15 Cork 2–9

Births

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Full date unknown

Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "1969: Civil rights protesters defiant". BBC News. 10 January 1969. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008.
  2. ^ Art Collections - introduction Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved: 2023-12-20.
  3. ^ The Trinity College Dublin Art Collections (PDF) Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved: 2023-12-20.
  4. ^ "A household Irish name built from humble beginnings: The Penneys story". TheJournal.ie. 1 March 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Fashion swing is felt by Penneys' owners". Independent.ie. Independent News and Media. Reuters. 11 July 2008.
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  7. ^ * Jones, Eric M. (16 July 2019). "Apollo 11 Surface Journal: EASEP Deployment and Closeout". NASA. Event occurs at 111:36:38. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  8. ^ McCaughren, Tom (5 August 1969). "Bomb Explodes at RTÉ Studios". RTÉ News. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  9. ^ Melaugh, Martin (7 May 2021). "A Chronology of the Conflict - 1969: Loyalist Bomb in Republic of Ireland". CAIN Web Service. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  10. ^ Richard Aldous (2007). Great Irish Speeches. 21 Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2NS: Quercus Publishing PLC. pp. 133–6. ISBN 978-1-84724-195-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  11. ^ Jack Lynch (13 August 1969). "A broadcast by An Taoiseach Mr. Jack Lynch T.D." (Video of live television broadcast). Dublin, Ireland: Telefís Éireann. Retrieved 14 January 2024. It is clear ... that the Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured, and perhaps worse.
  12. ^ "1969: British troops sent into Northern Ireland". BBC News. 14 August 1969. Retrieved 10 January 2008.
  13. ^ "Sir Ian Freeland – Testing time in Ulster". The Times. No. 60482. London. 23 November 1979. p. IV (Obituaries).
  14. ^ Clonan, Tom (31 August 2009). "Operation Armageddon' would have been doomsday – for Irish aggressors". The Irish Times. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
  15. ^ "Home". PeaceWall.
  16. ^ "Unveiling at Tone's Grave". The Leinster Leader. 11 July 2013.
  17. ^ a b "Security Checks After Dublin Incidents. Big Border Hunt Follows Blast". Belfast Newsletter. 27 December 1969. p. 1.
  18. ^ "Foley's Theme: A People's Thanks". Irish Independent. 27 December 1969. p. 9.
  19. ^ "Search for Saboteurs Continues". The Irish Press. 29 December 1969. p. 3.
  20. ^ "10 September 1967". Ireland in History Day by Day. 10 September 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  21. ^ Edwards, Aaron (2011). The Northern Ireland Troubles. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84908-525-0.
  22. ^ McKittrick, David (5 July 2011). "Author of Holy War in Belfast remembered". BBC News. Retrieved 2 July 2023.