Born in 1953

A selection from Wikipedia's '1953 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 18 January – The Sinn Féin party decided to contest all twelve constituencies in the next Westminster elections in Northern Ireland.
• 15 March – Up to ten thousand civil servants marched on O'Connell Street in Dublin demanding a just wage.
• 1 May – The first television transmitter in Ireland was brought into service by the BBC at Glencairn.
• 3 June – Five hundred unemployed men marched to Kildare Street in Dublin demanding employment, not dole.
• 6 July – A thousand unemployed people sat on O'Connell Bridge in Dublin for fifteen minutes of protest.
• 30 August – A new synagogue was dedicated at Terenure in Dublin, designed by Wilfrid Cantwell.
• 1 September – The Great Northern Railway was sold to the governments of the Republic and Northern Ireland and managed by a joint board.
• 20 October – The Busáras bus station opened in Dublin. It was designed by Michael Scott in the International Style.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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