official charts were founded by RTÉ in 1962.) 3 March – The film Home Is the Hero, based on the play by and starring Walter Macken, was released in Dublin. 24 June – Walt Disney's film Darby O'Gill and the Little People, based on H. T. Kavanagh's short stories, had its world premiere in Dublin. 15 September – Donagh MacDonagh's play Lady Spider, a retelling of the Deirdre myth, premiered at the Gas Company Theatre, Dún Laoghaire. 28 September – Dominic Behan's play Posterity Be Damned premiered at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. 30 September – The film of Mise Éire, made by George Morrison with music by Seán Ó Riada for Gael Linn, premiered to conclude the Cork Film Festival, the first feature-length Irish language film. December – British-Irish actor Peter O'Toole married Welsh actress Siân Phillips in Dublin. Sports Association football St Patrick's Athletic won the FAI Cup Shamrock Rovers won the League of Ireland Hurling Waterford GAA won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Births 6 January – Davy Spillane, folk rock musician, uillean piper. 6 February – Dermot Bolger, novelist, playwright and poet. 20 February – Patrick Walker, soccer player and manager. 22 February – Matthew Dwyer, cricketer. 21 May Fergus Johnston, composer. Brian Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin West and Minister for Finance (died 2011). 13 June – Mairead McGuinness, journalist, Member of the European Parliament. 13 June – Mary Wallace, Fianna Fáil TD for Meath East and Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food. 4 August – John Gormley, leader of the Green Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and TD for Dublin South-East. 9 August – Hugh Brady, President of University College Dublin. 28 August – Lorcan Cranitch, actor. 28 September – Michael Scott, genre fiction author. 1 October – Billy Timmins, Fine Gael TD. 8 October – Gavin Friday, singer, songwriter, composer and painter. 20 October – Niamh Cusack, actress. 7 November – John Anderson, soccer player. 28 November – Stephen Roche, road racing cyclist, in 1987 won Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the World Cycling Championship. 4 December – Paul McGrath, Irish international soccer player. Full date unknown – Lorcan O'Herlihy, architect and artist in the United States. Deaths 9 January – A. M. Sullivan, lawyer (born 1871). January – Patrick O'Connell, soccer player and manager (born 1887). 4 February – Una O'Connor, actress