Born in 1951

A selection from Wikipedia's '1951 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 2 February – Éamon de Valera visited Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
• 11 April – Minister for Health Noel Browne resigned and his Mother and Child Scheme was overturned.
• 19 April – The Attorney General for Northern Ireland, Ed Warnock, referring to Noel Browne's resignation, said that Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth (i.e. by the Catholic Church).
• 30 May – 1951 Irish general election: Fianna Fáil won most seats but lacked an overall majority.
• 13 June – Members of the 14th Dáil assembled. Éamon de Valera became Taoiseach with one of the smallest majorities on record (74–69), forming a Fianna Fáil government with the support of independents.
• 1 July – Taoiseach Éamon de Valera paid his first visit to Derry in 25 years.
• 21 October – 4 November – The first Wexford "Festival of Music and the Arts", predecessor of Wexford Festival Opera.
• 15 November – The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded jointly to Professor Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin and Sir John Cockcroft.

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