1951 in Ireland

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1 Events

Events

February 2 - Eamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
April 11 - Minister for Health Dr. Noel Browne resigns and his Mother and Child Scheme is overturned.
April 19 - The Northern Ireland Attorney-General, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, says that Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth.
May 24 - Gardaí exchange shots with two men after they throw a bomb at the British Embassy in Dublin.
June 8 - Jack Doyle defeats America's 'Beer Baron' Two-Ton Tony Gelanto at Tolka Park .
June 10 - Justice George Gavan Duffy , one of the signatories of the Treaty in 1921, dies in Dublin.
June 13 - Eamon de Valera becomes Taoiseach with one of the smallest majorities on record 74-69.
July 1 - An Taoiseach Eamon de Valera pays his first visit to Derry in 25 years.
July 18 - The Abbey Theatre in Dublin is burnt to the ground.
November 15 - The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded jointly to Professor Ernest Walton of Trinity College Dublin and Sir John Cockcroft.

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