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On 10 September 1966, the Fianna Fáil Education Minister, Donogh O'Malley, made an unauthorised speech announcing plans for free upper second-level education in Ireland. Free upper second-level education was eventually introduced in September 1967, and is now widely seen as a milestone in Irish history. [5]
19 November – Jimmy O'Connor scored the world's fastest ever hat-trick in a first-class association football match when he scored three goals in 2 minutes and 13 seconds (some sources dispute this, and claim the actual time was 2 minutes and 14 seconds) for Shelbourne F.C. against Bohemian F.C. in a League of Ireland match at Dalymount Park.
Some Irish commentators consider that O'Malley's extension of education, changing Ireland from a land where the majority were schooled only to the age of 14 to a country with universal secondary-school education, indirectly led to the Celtic Tiger boom of the 1990s-2000s [21] when it was followed for some years by an extension of free education ...
Rocky Road to Dublin is a 1967 Irish documentary film by Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and French cinematographer Raoul Coutard, examining the contemporary state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, "what do you do with your revolution once you've got it?" It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic ...
History of education in Ireland (until 1922) This page was last edited on 22 January 2024, at 12:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
In 1967, Moody hosted the 21-part television series The Course of Irish History that was aired on the Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTE), where he aimed "to present a survey of Irish history that would be both popular and authoritative, concise but comprehensive, highly selective while at the same time balanced and fair-minded, critical, but ...
1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1967th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 967th year of the 2nd millennium, the 67th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1960s decade.
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