Born in 1949

A selection from Wikipedia's '1949 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 22 March – The Irish Government leased a residence in the Phoenix Park in Dublin to the United States government for a period of 99 years. It will be the residence of the United States ambassador.
• 17 April – At midnight, the 26 counties officially left the British Commonwealth under the terms of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushered in the Republic of Ireland.
• 3 May – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Ireland Act guaranteeing the position of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom as long as a majority of its citizens want it to be.
• 10 May – Dáil Éireann passed a motion, "Protest Against Partition", which placed on record its "indignant protest against the introduction in the British Parliament of legislation purporting to endorse and continue the existing partition of Ireland".
• 26 June – Eighty thousand members of the teetotal Pioneer Total Abstinence Society gathered in Croke Park in Dublin to affirm the pledge of abstinence from alcohol.
• 9 July – The last tram in Dublin ran from Nelson's Pillar to Blackrock and was the last tram in Dublin until the Luas tram service was inaugurated in 2004.
• 24 August – Tánaiste William Norton told the European Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg that Ireland would not agree to a customs union of western European states.
• 8 November – Street names in any language other than English were prohibited by an Amendment to a Bill passed in the Senate of Northern Ireland.

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