1951 in Ireland

Events

• February 2 - Éamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
• April 11 - Minister for Health Dr. Noel Browne resigns and his Mother and Child Scheme is overturned.
• April 19 - The Northern Ireland Attorney-General, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, says that Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth.
• May 24 - Gardaí exchange shots with two men after they throw a bomb at the British Embassy in Dublin.
• June 8 - Jack Doyle defeats America's 'Beer Baron' Two-Ton Tony Gelanto at Tolka Park.
• June 10 - Justice George Gavan Duffy, one of the signatories of the Treaty in 1921, dies in Dublin.
• June 13 - Éamon de Valera becomes Taoiseach with one of the smallest majorities on record 74-69.
• July 1 - Taoiseach Éamon de Valera pays his first......
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