1967 in Ireland

Incumbents

• President: Éamon de Valera
• Taoiseach: Jack Lynch
• Tánaiste: Frank Aiken
• Minister for Finance: Charles Haughey
• Chief Justice: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
• Dáil: 18th
• Seanad: 11th

  Events

• 9 January – demonstrations by the National Farmers' Association caused major chaos when farm machinery blocked many roads.
• 4 April – the Fianna Fáil party made a presentation to former Taoiseach Seán Lemass.
• 18 April – the Minister for Education, Donogh O'Malley, revealed his plan for a single multi-denominational University of Dublin. This would combine University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.
• 30 June – Jacqueline Kennedy arrived in Ireland for a holiday with her children, Caroline and John. She was received at Áras an Uachtaráin, where she was an overnight guest, by President Éamon de Valera and his wife, Sinéad. She was received in the evening by Taoiseach Jack Lynch and his wife Máirín at a state banquet at Dublin Castle.
• 1 July – Jacqueline Kennedy attended the Irish Sweeps Derby horse race at the Curragh with Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Mrs. Máirín Lynch.
• 4 August – Senator Margaret Mary Pearse, sister of Patrick Pearse and Willie Pearse, the executed 1916 leaders, was 89 today. She was greeted by President de Valera.
• 4 September – Ireland's free post-primary school transport scheme began. CIÉ brought 38,000 students to 350 schools.
• 10 September – the Minister for Education, Donogh O'Malley, made a surprise announcement of free secondary education for all from 1969.
• 4 November – Taoiseach Jack Lynch returned to Dublin following talks on the European Community with General Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
• 4 December – the first independent computer in Ireland began operation at Shannon Airport.
• 11 December – Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill met for talks in Stormont. Lynch's car was snowballed by Ian Paisley and his supporters.
• 29 December – the Minister for Labour, Patrick Hillery, announced details of a new redundancy payments scheme which took effect from New Year's Day.

  Arts and literature

• 17 September – Legendary British rock band Pink Floyd performed their only ever concert in the Republic of Ireland at Cork's Arcadia Ballroom.
• 29 September – the Focus Theatre in Dublin opened its doors for the first time.
• 2 December – poet Patrick Kavanagh was buried in his native Inniskeen, County Monaghan.
• The Censorship of Publications Act provided that prohibition orders made on the grounds of indecency or obscenity would expire after twelve years.
• The New Writers Press was founded by poets Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce with Smith's wife Irene in Dublin to publish poetry.
• Eavan Boland's poems New Territory were published.
• John Montague's poems A Chosen Light were published.
• Flann O'Brien's novel, The Third Policeman, was published posthumously in London.
• Edward Delaney's bronze statue :File:WolfeToneStatue.JPG|Wolfe Tone was completed.
• Foundation of the Project Arts Centre in Dublin.

  Sport

• 19 November – Jimmy O'Connor scored the world's fastest ever hat-trick in a first-class match when he scored three goals in 2 minutes and 13 seconds for Shelbourne against Bohemians in a League of Ireland match at Dalymount Park.

  Births

• 12 January – Gary Kirby, Limerick hurler.
• 22 January – Eleanor McEvoy, singer songwriter.
• 6 February – Susan McKeown, folk singer.
• 1 March
• * Justin Benson, cricketer.
• * Ann Gallagher, Labour Party politician.
• 14 March – Willie O'Connor, Kilkenny hurler.
• 16 March – Terry Phelan, footballer born in England of Irish descent
• 17 March – Angus Dunlop, cricketer.
• 3 April – Liam Twomey, doctor, Fine Gael TD, Senator.
• 20 April – Alan McLoughlin, footballer born in England of Irish descent.
• 25 April – Alan Kernaghan, footballer born in England of Irish descent.
• 6 May –John Fitzgibbon, Cork hurler.
• 16 May – Barry Andrews, Fianna Fáil politician, TD for Dún Laoghaire.
• 19 May – Geraldine Somerville, actress.
• 26 May – Philip Treacy, hat designer.
• July – Anne Marie Forrest, author.
• 6 July –Mark Foley, Cork hurler.
• 4 September – Cathal Casey, Cork hurler.
• 12 September – Kieran McGuckin, Cork hurler.
• 15 October
• * Lawrence Roche, road racing cyclist.
• * Don Wycherley, actor
• 13 December – Noel Fitzpatrick, veterinary surgeon.

Deaths

• 1 January – Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal and later Fine Gael.
• 28 January – Helena Molony, fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and first woman president of the Irish Trades Union Congress.
• 16 March – Thomas MacGreevy, poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland.
• 12 April – Sam English, soccer player.
• 22 April – Walter Macken, novelist, dramatist and actor.
• 4 August – Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, peer and soldier.
• 14 September – Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, businessman, politician and philanthropist, Chancellor University of Dublin.
• November – Edward Richards-Orpen, furniture maker and independent member of Seanad Éireann.
• 30 November – Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist.
• 4 December – Michael Riordan, San Francisco Police Department Chief.
• 18 December – James Everett, Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for Battle of Baltinglass, 44 years service as a TD.
• 18 December – Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer.
• 28 December – John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael TD.