1968 in Ireland

Events

January 8 – An Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill meet for talks in Dublin.
March 10 – Minister for Education Donagh O'Malley collapses and dies while campaigning in County Clare.
March 17 – A seat to commemorate the poet Patrick Kavanagh is unveiled alongside the Grand Canal in Dublin.
March 24 – An Aer Lingus aircraft, St Phelim, plunges into the Irish Sea off the Tuskar Rock killing all 57 passengers.
May 29 – President de Valera opens the John F. Kennedy Memorial Park in New Ross, County Wexford.
June 6 – Ireland mourns the loss of Senator Robert Kennedy who was assassinated. Dáil Éireann pays tribute and a book of condolence is opened.
September 18 – George Best is the star atrraction as Manchester United beat Waterford City 3–1 at Lansdowne Road.
October 5 – Police in Derry baton-charge a Northern Ireland civil rights march.
October 8 – 20 new traffic wardens are introduced on Dublin's streets.
October 25 – the New University of Ulster is opened in Coleraine, County Derry.
December 13 – According to the Economic and Social Research Institute 60% of undergraduates in this country will emigrate on graduation.