Born in 1957

A selection from Wikipedia's '1957 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 12 January – Over a hundred republicans were arrested under the Special Powers Act in Northern Ireland.
• 4 February – St. Mary's Church of Ireland Cathedral at Elphin, County Roscommon, was severely damaged in a violent storm, leading to its abandonment.
• 5 March – 1957 Irish general election: The Fianna Fáil party under Éamon de Valera returned to power, winning 78 seats. Members of the 16th Dáil assembled on 20 March.
• 7 March – A Percival Provost aircraft crashed on the lower eastern slope of Table Mountain, County Wicklow with the loss of one life.
• 4 July – The Dáil debated the Fethard-on-Sea Ne Temere boycott.
• 30 September – Last day of operation of 97 miles (155 km) of railway in Northern Ireland (Great Northern Railway (GNR) branches and the entire Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway) following government instructions. County Fermanagh lost all its lines.
• 10 October – The Windscale fire began with a fire in a graphite core of a reactor at the Windscale Nuclear Power station and reprocessing centre on the Cumberland coast of North West England.
• 1 November – The Soviet satellite Sputnik was visible over Dublin for the second time in a month.

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