1952 in Ireland-The Daily Ledger

Events from the year 1952 in Ireland.

Incumbents

President: Seán T. O'Kelly

Taoiseach: Éamon de Valera (FF) Tánaiste: Seán Lemass (FF) Minister for Finance: Seán MacEntee (FF) Chief Justice: Conor Maguire Dáil: 14th Seanad: 7th

1952 in Ireland

Events

9 January – Seanchaí Peig Sayers travelled to Dublin for the first time in her 81 years. 10 January – An Aer Lingus Douglas DC-3 aircraft on a London–Dublin flight crashed in Wales due to vertical draft in the mountains of Snowdonia, killing twenty passengers and the three crew. It was the airline's first fatal crash in its fifteen-year history. 30 April – The Adoption Bill made provision for the adoption of orphans and children aged between six months and seven years born outside wedlock. 11 May – In Washington, D.C., the House Foreign affairs Committee explained that Ireland's exclusion from Marshall Aid was due to its wartime neutrality. 30 May – The Minister for Education, Seán Moylan, announced longer summer holidays for national school children. 24 November – The Minister for Defence, Oscar Traynor, presented framed copies of the Proclamation to three printers who had been involved in the production of the original work. 29 December – Éamon de Valera arrived back in Dublin after spending four months at an eye clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

1952 in Ireland

Arts and literature

12 July – Première of the romantic comedy-drama film The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, set in 1930s Ireland and with much location filming around Cong, County Mayo. 17 October – Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot was published in French as En attendant Godot by Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris. The novelist Elizabeth Bowen settled in her ancestral home, Bowen's Court at Farahy, near Kildorrery, County Cork. Austin Clarke published his third and last novel The Sun Dances at Easter: a romance; like the first two, it was prohibited in Ireland by the Censorship of Publications Board. Louis le Brocquy's 1951 painting A Family sparked controversy when a group of art patrons offered to present it to the Dublin Municipal Gallery and it was rejected by the Art Advisory Committee on the grounds of incompetence. Daniel O'Neill painted Birth. Seán Ó Ríordáin published his first book of poetry, Eireaball Spideoige.