1965 in Ireland
overview of Ireland-related events during the year of 1965
Events in the year 1965 in Ireland.
Incumbents
President: Éamon de Valera
Taoiseach: Seán Lemass (FF)
Tánaiste:
Seán MacEntee (FF) (until 21 April 1965)
Frank Aiken (FF) (from 21 April 1965)
Minister for Finance:
James Ryan (FF) (until 21 April 1965)
Jack Lynch (FF) (from 21 April 1965)
Chief Justice: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
Dáil:
17th (until 11 March 1965)
18th (from 21 April 1965)
Seanad:
10th (until 28 April 1965)
11th (from 23 June 1965)
Events
14 January – Taoiseach Seán Lemass travelled to Belfast for a historic meeting with the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill.
21 January – Nationalist leader Eddie McAteer visited Seán Lemass in Dublin.
28 February – Roger Casement (executed in Pentonville Prison in 1916) was honoured with a state funeral and reburial in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
7 March – Changes to the Liturgy of the Catholic Mass were introduced. Mass was said in the vernacular (English) for the first time instead of in Latin.
18 March – The Northern Minister for Agriculture, Harry West attended a meeting with his Southern counterpart, Charles Haughey, in Dublin.
20 March – Ireland made its debut at the Eurovision Song Contest. Butch Moore sang Walking the Streets in the Rain and came sixth at the final in Naples.
7 April – 1965 Irish general election: The ruling Fianna Fáil party led by Seán Lemass gained a majority.
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