1951 in Ireland

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.

April 24 – Enda Kenny, current leader of Fine Gael.
June 27 – Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland.
August 30 – Dana Rosemary Scallon, Eurovision Song Contest winner and former MEP.
September 12 – Bertie Ahern, current Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil.
October 5 – Bob Geldof, singer, songwriter and humanitarian.