1957 in Ireland

Events

January 1 – Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in an IRA attack on an RUC barracks in County Fermanagh. The two men become part of republican folklore.
January 24 – Sir Alfred Chester Beatty becomes the first honorary Irish citizen.
March 3 – Eamon de Valera tells a crowd in Cork that a United Ireland can be achieved with time and the support of the people.
March 7 – Fianna Fáil returns to power winning 78 seats in the Sixteenth Dáil.
March 28 – Artist Jack B. Yeats dies in Dublin.
July 22 – The Gough Monument in the Phoenix Park is wrecked by an explosion. The explosion is so violent it is heard all over Dublin.
August 7 – A 20-foot high war memorial in Limerick is blown up. It was erected to commemorate Limerick men who who died in World War I.
October 2 – The Minister for Health, Seán MacEntee, launches the Voluntary Health Insurance Board.
October 7 – President Seán T. O'Kelly's country residence, Roundwood House, County Wicklow, is destroyed by fire.
November 1 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik is visible over Dublin for the second time in a month.