Born in 1959

A selection from Wikipedia's '1959 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 7 January – Dáil Éireann debated a motion that Éamon de Valera's position as controlling director of the Irish Press newspaper could be regarded as incompatible with his duties as Taoiseach.
• 23 January – The government was considering the introduction of a pay-as-you-earn system of income tax.
• 8 April – James Dillon of the Fine Gael party wanted to abolish compulsory Irish language studies at school as he felt they were counter-productive.
• 17 June – In the 1959 presidential election, Fianna Fáil party candidate Éamon de Valera beat Fine Gael party candidate Seán Mac Eoin, and was inaugurated at Dublin Castle on June 25 as Ireland's third president.
• 29 July – The new Department of Transport and Power was established. Erskine Childers was the first Minister, and Thekla Beere was departmental Secretary, the first woman to achieve this grade in the Irish Civil Service.
• 22 September – At its inaugural conference the Irish Congress of Trade Unions attacked the government of Northern Ireland for not recognising the new organisation.
• 21 October – James Dillon was elected leader of the Fine Gael Party. He replaced Richard Mulcahy as leader and John A. Costello as parliamentary leader.
• 4 December – Twelve new female members of the Garda Síochána (police), known as banghardaí, passed out of the training depot in the Phoenix Park in Dublin.

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