1975 in Ireland

Events

January 7 – Sinéad Bean de Valera dies in Dublin aged 96.
January 30 – Charles Haughey is brought back onto the Fianna Fáil front bench.
February 18 – Aer Lingus hostesses get a new uniform.
April 17 – Our Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort becomes a recognised college of the National University of Ireland.
June 18 – Dr Danny O'Hare is made acting director of the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin a day later the governing body meets for the first time.
July 31 – Three members of the Miami Showband are killed in a UVF ambush as they return froma dance in County Down.
August 29 – Eamon de Valera dies in Dublin aged 92. His life has spanned the history of the Irish State. He was a leader of the Easter Rising in 1916. He served as Taoiseach for 21 years and President for 14 years. The government announces a day of mourning.
October 3 – Dutch industrialist Dr. Tiede Herrema, who owns a factory in Limerick, is kidnapped.
October 12 – Oliver Plunkett, the 17th-century Archbishop of Armagh, is canonised by Pope Paul VI in Rome.
October 21 – Dr. Tiede Herrema is located with his kidnappers in Monasterevin, County Kildare.
November 18 – The Tiede Herrema kidnap siege ends.
December 28 – George Best plays a League of Ireland match for Cork Celtic against Drogheda.

The Druid theatre company is founded in Galway by Garry Hynes, Mick Lally and Marie Mullen.
John Ryan's memoir Remembering How We Stood and Paul Durkan's collection of poems O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor are published.