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Events

• February 6 - Dublin's Liam Whelan is among the dead when a plane carrying the Manchester United team crashes in Munich.
• March 18 - An Taoiseach Éamon de Valera says he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.
• March 20 - Work begins on the £80,000 restoration of the State rooms at Dublin Castle.
• May 10 - The Independent TD, John Murphy, resigns in protest at the indifference of the main political parties to the plight of the unemployed.
• May 12 - Ardmore Studios is opened by Seán Lemass.
• May 22 - The Minister for Education, Jack Lynch, tells the Dáil that the ruling requiring women teachers to retire on marriage is to be revoked.
• July 25 - £100 damages are awarded to a nine-year old who was beaten by his teacher in a national school.
• July 28 - The Carlisle Monument, an eight foot bronze statue in the Phoenix Park, is blown up in the early hours.
• August 6 - Australian athlete Herb Elliott shatters the world record for the mile at Santry Stadium, recording a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds.
• August 8 - The US Embassy in Merrion Square displays plans for a new embassy in Dublin.
• September 8 - Pan Am's Boeing 707 becomes the first jetliner to touch down on European soil at Shannon Airport.
• October 29 - The government announces that the ending of the proportional representation method of voting is to be put to the people in a referendum.
• November 4 - In the Vatican, An Taoiseach Éamon de Valera attends the four-hour coronation of Pope John XXIII.
• November 12 - Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy is banned by the Censorship of Publications Board.
• December 31 - The Harcourt Street Line, a railway service serving Dundrum, Foxrock and points to Bray closes

Arts and literature

Sports

• Football World Cup

• Group stage

• Northern Ireland 1-1 Czechoslovakia
• Northern Ireland 1-1 Argentina
• Northern Ireland 1-1 West Germany

Northern Ireland enter group play off stage the World Cup

• Northern Ireland 2-1 Czechoslovakia AET

Northern Ireland qualify for the quarter final stage of the World Cup

• Northern Ireland 0-4 France

Northern Ireland are knocked out at the quarter final stage of the World Cup

The Republic of Ireland did not qualify for the 1958 world cup

Births

January to June

• 1 January - Liam Fennelly, former Kilkenny hurler.
• 1 February - Seán Fleming, Fianna Fáil TD for Laois-Offaly.
• 19 April - Denis O'Brien, entrepreneur.
• 30 April - James Hewitt, soldier and lover of Diana, Princess of Wales.
• 6 May - Tommy Byrne, former motor racing driver.
• 6 May - Ivor Callely, Fianna Fáil politician, member of the 23rd Seanad Éireann, former TD and Minister of State.
• 8 May - Roddy Doyle, novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.
• 11 May - Conor Hayes, Galway hurler and manager.
• 2 June - John Buckley, former Cork hurler.

July to December

• 5 July - Veronica Guerin, journalist, murdered by drug dealers (d.1996).
• 10 July - Fiona Shaw, actress.
• 11 July - Martin Doherty, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• 10 September - Siobhan Fahey, musician.
• 18 September - John Aldridge, former Irish international soccer player.
• 11 November - John Devine, soccer player.
• 16 November - Maura O'Connell, singer.
• 21 November - Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of the Ireland national rugby union team.

Full date unknown

• Synan Braddish, soccer player.
• Michael Flatley, dancer.
• Aidan Fogarty, Offaly hurler.
• Noel Hill, concertina player.
• Michael Lyster, RTE sports broadcaster.
• Fintan O'Toole, journalist and drama critic.
• Paddy Prendergast, former Kilkenny hurler.
• Paul Woodfull, writer, actor, comedian and musician.

Deaths

• 1 January - Richard Hayes, doctor and Sinn Féin MP.
• 17 January - Michael Donohoe, Democrat U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (b.1864).
• 24 March - Seamus O'Sullivan, poet and editor (b.1879).
• 29 March - Jimmy Archer, Major League baseball player (b.1883).
• 6 July - John Lymbrick Esmonde, soldier, Fine Gael TD (b.1893).
• 13 August - James Lennon, member of 1st Dáil representing the County Carlow constituency.
• 24 August - Paul Henry, artist (b.1876).
• 15 October - Lennox Robinson, dramatist, poet and theatre director and producer (b.1886).
• 2 December - Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (b.1892).
• 19 December - Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (b.1868).

Full date unknown

• Dorothy Macardle, author and historian (b.1889).
• Peig Sayers, writer and seanachaí (b.1873).
• Dick Walsh, Kilkenny hurler (b.1878).