Events from the year 1958 in Ireland .
6 February – Association football player, 22-year-old Billy Whelan , who played four times for the Irish national team , was among 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster involving English football team Manchester United .[ 1]
18 March – Taoiseach Éamon de Valera said he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.
20 March – Work began on the £80,000 restoration of the State Rooms at Dublin Castle .
10 May – The Independent Teachta Dála (TD), Jack Murphy , resigned in protest at the indifference of the main political parties to the plight of the unemployed.
12 May – The Ardmore Film Studios were opened by the Tánaiste , Seán Lemass .
22 May – The Minister for Education , Jack Lynch , told the Dáil that the ruling requiring women teachers to retire upon marriage was to be revoked.
25 July – £100 damages were awarded to a nine-year-old boy who was beaten by his teacher in a national school .
28 July – The Carlisle Monument, an eight-foot bronze statue in the Phoenix Park in Dublin , was blown up by an Irish republican bomb in the early hours.[ 2]
8 August – The United States Embassy in Merrion Square, Dublin displayed plans for a new embassy.
8 September – Pan Am 's Boeing 707 became the first jetliner to touch down on European soil at Shannon Airport .
1 October – Assets and management of the Great Northern Railway were divided between Córas Iompair Éireann and the Ulster Transport Authority .
29 October – The Government announced that the question of ending the proportional representation method of voting was to be put to the people in a referendum.
4 November – In the Vatican , Taoiseach Éamon de Valera attended the four-hour coronation of Pope John XXIII .
31 December – The Harcourt Street railway line in Dublin closed, having served Ranelagh, Milltown, Dundrum, Stillorgan, Foxrock, Carrickmines, Shankill and Bray. Arts and literature [ edit ] (The Republic of Ireland did not qualify for the 1958 world cup)
Northern Ireland :
1 January – Liam Fennelly , Kilkenny hurler
27 January – Synan Braddish , association football player
1 February – Seán Fleming , Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for Laois–Offaly
2 February – Paddy Prendergast , Kilkenny hurler
16 February – Fintan O'Toole , journalist and drama critic
1 April – Stephen O'Rahilly , Irish-British physician and academic
19 April – Denis O'Brien , entrepreneur
30 April – James Hewitt , soldier and lover of Diana, Princess of Wales
6 May
8 May – Roddy Doyle , novelist, dramatist and screenwriter
11 May – Conor Hayes , Galway hurler and manager
2 June – John Buckley , Cork hurler
7 June – Aidan Fogarty , Offaly hurler
8 June
5 July – Veronica Guerin , journalist (murdered by drug dealers in 1996)
10 July – Fiona Shaw , actress
11 July – Martin Doherty , member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
16 July – Michael Flatley , American dancer
10 September – Siobhan Fahey , musician
16 September – Maura O'Connell , singer
18 September – John Aldridge , Irish international association football player, in England of Irish descent
11 November – John Devine , association football player
21 November – Eddie O'Sullivan , head coach of the Ireland national rugby union team Full date unknown
1 January – Richard Hayes , doctor and Sinn Féin Member of Parliament (born 1878)
17 January – Michael Donohoe , Irish-born American politician, Democratic U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (born 1864)
24 March – Seamus O'Sullivan , poet and editor (born 1879)
29 March – Jimmy Archer , Major League baseball player (born 1883)
24 April – Mabel McConnell Fitzgerald , republican, suffragette and socialist (born 1884]
6 July – John Esmonde , soldier, Fine Gael TD (born 1893)
28 July – Dick Walsh , Kilkenny hurler (born 1878)
13 August – James Lennon , member of 1st Dáil representing the County Carlow constituency
24 August – Paul Henry , artist (born 1876)
9 September – Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh , actress and Republican activist (born 1883)
15 October – Lennox Robinson , dramatist, poet and theatre director and producer (born 1886)
2 December – Alan McKibbin , businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (born 1892)
8 December – Peig Sayers (Máiréad Ó Gaoithín), seanachaí (traditional storyteller) (born 1873)
19 December – Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran , Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (born 1868)
23 December – Dorothy Macardle , author and historian (born 1889)
24 December – Martin O'Brien , hurler (Thurles Sarsfields , Tipperary ) (born 1885)