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 Londonderry.
December 13 - According to the Economic and Social Research Institute 60% of undergraduates in this country will emigrate on graduation.

November 7 - Margaret Pearse, sister of Pádraig Pearse and Willie Pearse, represented Dublin County in the 8th Dáil, Fianna Fáil member of Seanad from 1938 to 1969