1954 – INFORMATION AND EVENTS FROM 1954

Meath won the All Ireland Senior Football Championship
Cork  won the All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

FAMOUS IRISH PEOPLE BORN THAT YEAR INCLUDE

Bob Geldof (Activist)
Philomena Begley (Singer)

ALSO, BORN THAT YEAR WERE

Annie Lennox (Singer)
Chris Evert (American Tennis Player)
Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor US)
Dennis Quaid (Actor)
Denzel Washington (Actor)
Jackie Khan (Stuntsman and Actor)
James Cameron (Director)
Jerry Seinfield (Actor and Comenian)
John Travolta (Actor)
Kathleen Turner (Actress)
Neil Tennant (Singer – Pet Shop Boys)
Rene Russo (Actress)

INVENTIONS IN 1954  INCLUDED

Non Stick Teflon Pan
Solar Cell

ALSO THAT YEAR

• 16 June – The first public celebration of Bloomsday took place in Dublin. Writers Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin travelled in a horse-drawn coach stopping at numerous pubs to retrace the steps of the characters from James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.
• 16 October – A marble plaque was unveiled at Westland Row, Dublin, to mark the centenary of the birth of Oscar Wilde.
• 19 November – Brendan Behan‘s first play, The Quare Fellow, premièred at the Pike Theatre, Dublin, to great reviews.
• The first Cork International Choral and Folk Dance Festival was held.^[2]
• English-born painter Derek Hill settled at St Columb’s Rectory, near Churchill, County Donegal.
• Publication of Christy Brown‘s autobiography My Left Foot.
• Publication of Iris Murdoch‘s first novel, Under the Net.