1962 in Ireland

Events in the year 1962 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Éamon de Valera
 * Taoiseach: Seán Lemass (FF)
 * Tánaiste: Seán MacEntee (FF)
 * Minister for Finance: James Ryan (FF)
 * Chief Justice: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
 * Dáil: 17th
 * Seanad: 10th

Events

 * 26 February – The Irish Republican Army officially called off its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland.
 * 13 March – Irish artists left Dublin Airport for the Congo to entertain United Nations troops there.
 * 17 March – President Éamon de Valera and his wife Sinéad had a private audience with Pope John XXIII in Rome.
 * 5 April – A final train ran on the west Cork railway.
 * 8 May – Irish troops left for a peace-keeping mission in the Congo.
 * 6 July – Gay Byrne presented the first edition of The Late Late Show television programme on Telefís Éireann. He went on to present the show for 37 years.
 * 13 July – Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant arrived in Dublin. He paid tribute to Irish soldiers who fought in the Congo.
 * 21 August – Former United States President Dwight Eisenhower arrived in Belfast on a four-day visit to Ireland.
 * 13 November – Aer Lingus air hostesses received new uniforms. The colours were fern-green and St. Patrick's blue.

Arts and literature

 * 30 June – The Theatre Royal, Dublin closed.
 * 4 December – The first Jacob's broadcasting awards ceremony took place in Dublin.
 * Irish folk music group the Abbey Tavern Singers was formed in Howth.
 * Irish folk music band The Chieftains was formed by Paddy Moloney in Dublin.
 * Irish folk music band The Dubliners was formed at O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin.
 * Eavan Boland published 23 Poems while an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin.
 * Ewart Milne's poetry A Garland for the Green was published.
 * Eoghan Ó Tuairisc published his Irish language prose epic L'Attaque in Dublin.
 * Cecil Woodham-Smith published her history The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845–1849.

Association football

 * Shelbourne FC won the League of Ireland championship for the seventh time with a 1–0 play-off victory over Cork Celtic thanks to a Ben Hannigan goal.

Births

 * 1 January – Jamie O'Neill, author.
 * 9 January – Ray Houghton, association football player, in Scotland to an Irish father.
 * 2 March – Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, children's author and illustrator.
 * 13 April – Harry Kenny, association football player.
 * 7 May – Paul Kimmage, cyclist and sports journalist.
 * 9 June – Bobby Browne, association football player.
 * 15 June – Martin Earley, road bicycle racer.
 * 26 June – Cyprian Brady, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central.
 * 4 July – Martin Hayes, fiddle player.
 * 11 July – Pauline McLynn, actress and writer.
 * 14 July – Eamon Delaney, author and journalist.
 * 19 July – Caitríona Ruane, Sinn Féin party Member of the Legislative Assembly and Minister for Education in Northern Ireland.
 * 14 August
 * Dan Boyle, former Green Party TD, senator.
 * Peter Eccles, association football player.
 * 1 September – Tony Cascarino, association football player.
 * 11 October
 * Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author.
 * Eddie Hobbs, financial adviser and television presenter.
 * 2 December – Kevin Brady, association football player.
 * Full date unknown – Tom Spillane, Kerry Gaelic footballer.

Deaths

 * 1 February – Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal party member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach (chairperson) of the Seanad (born 1867).
 * 13 March – Anne Acheson, sculptor (born 1882).
 * 14 March – Eileen Costello, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad.
 * 25 June – Robert Gwynn, cricketer (born 1877).
 * 4 July – William Harman, cricketer (born 1869).
 * 16 July – Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (born 1893).
 * 24 July – Margaret Buckley, president of Sinn Féin party from 1937 to 1950 (born 1879).
 * 26 October – Emily Anderson, British Foreign Office cryptanalyst, scholar of German and musicologist, in London (born 1891).