Born in 1971

A selection from Wikipedia's '1971 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 4 January – John McQuaid retired after thirty years as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. Dermot Ryan was appointed to succeed him on 29 December.
• 15 February – Decimalisation: Ireland and the United Kingdom both switched to decimal currency.
• 25 February – A partial eclipse of the sun (magnitude 0.708) darkened the sky across Ireland. In Dublin, the event lasted two hours and seven minutes.
• 6 March – Crowds assembled at Dublin Airport to witness the first flight of a Boeing 747 aircraft in Ireland when Aer Lingus took delivery of its first Jumbo Jet, the Saint Columcille (registration number EI-ASI), which arrived from New York.
• 3 April – The Eurovision Song Contest was held in Dublin for the first time. It was presented by Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir.
• 22 May – Members of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement returned to Dublin bringing contraceptives from Belfast on the so-called "Contraceptive Train" to protest against the law banning their importation.
• 9 August – Internment without trial was introduced in Northern Ireland. Over 300 republicans were arrested in pre-dawn raids by British security forces and interned in Long Kesh prison. Some Loyalists were later arrested.
• 13 October – The British Army began to destroy roads between Ireland and Northern Ireland as a security measure.

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