Born in 1952

A selection from Wikipedia's '1952 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 30 April – The Adoption Bill made provision for the adoption of orphans and children aged between six months and seven years born outside wedlock.
• 11 May – In Washington, D.C., the House Foreign affairs Committee explained that Ireland's exclusion from Marshall Aid was due to its wartime neutrality.
• 30 May – The Minister for Education, Seán Moylan, announced longer summer holidays for national school children.
• 10 June – In the 1952 presidential election, Ireland's third president, Seán T. O'Kelly, was re-elected unopposed for a second term. He was inaugurated on 25 June.
• 12 July – Première of the romantic comedy-drama film The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, set in 1930s Ireland and with much location filming around Cong, County Mayo.
• 17 October – Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot was published in French as En attendant Godot by Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris.
• 24 November – The Minister for Defence, Oscar Traynor, presented framed copies of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic to three printers who had been involved in the production of the original work.
• 29 December – Éamon de Valera arrived back in Dublin after spending four months at an eye clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

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