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Today Tonight was broadcast from Monday to Thursday on RTÉ One after the main evening news and restored the station's reputation for current affairs broadcasting following the demise of 7 Days in 1976. [2] The last edition of the programme was broadcast on 27 August 1992 and was replaced by Prime Time. [3] It won a number of Jacob's Awards.
Coolahan, John. Irish Education, History and Structure (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1981). Dowling, Patrick J. A history of Irish education: a study in conflicting loyalties (Cork, 1971). Dowling, Patrick J. The Hedge Schools of Ireland (1998). Farren, Sean. The politics of Irish education 1920-65 (Belfast, 1995).
John Dulanty begins a 20-year spell as Ireland's High Commissioner (later, Ambassador) to London. [1] 31 December – Mayo County Council is dissolved by ministerial order for refusing to appoint Miss Letitia Dunbar-Harrison to the position of county librarian on the grounds that she is a Protestant. [2]
Edith Mary Johnston aka Edith Mary Johnston-Liik (11 July 1930 – 25 February 2008) was a historian and editor. She was the first female St. Andrews PhD student to go on to an academic career. She was the first female St. Andrews PhD student to go on to an academic career.
Fergus Pyle, Northern Ireland editor; Arthur Quinlan, western correspondent; Paul Tansey, economics editor; Terence de Vere White, literary editor; John Waters; Maev-Ann Wren, business features editor, economics editor, senior newspaper editor
In 1952 Morris founded the historical journal Past & Present, which he edited until 1960, and remained chairman of the editorial board until 1972. He was one of the writers, along with A. H. M. Jones and J. R. Martindale , of The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire , a biographical dictionary of the years 284–641, the first volume of ...
13 October – Orson Welles makes his first professional stage debut, age 16, at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, with a leading rôle in an adaptation of Jew Süss. 25 October – Ireland's first all-concrete Art Deco church, the Church of Christ the King, is opened at Turners Cross, Cork, designed by Chicago architect Barry Byrne with sculptor John Storrs.
John Charles McQuaid, C.S.Sp. (28 July 1895 – 7 April 1973), was the Catholic Primate of Ireland and Archbishop of Dublin between December 1940 and January 1972. He was known for the unusual amount of influence he had over successive governments.