Events in the year 1965 in Ireland. Incumbents President: Éamon de Valera Taoiseach: Seán Lemass (FF) Tánaiste: Seán MacEntee (FF) (until 21 April 1965) Frank Aiken (FF) (from 21 April 1965) Minister for Finance: James Ryan (FF) (until 21 April 1965) Jack Lynch (FF) (from 21 April 1965) Chief Justice: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh Dáil: 17th (until 11 March 1965) 18th (from 21 April 1965) Seanad: 10th (until 28 April 1965) 11th (from 23 June 1965) Events 14 January – Taoiseach Seán Lemass travelled to Belfast for a historic meeting with the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill. 21 January – Nationalist leader Eddie McAteer visited Seán Lemass in Dublin. 28 February – Roger Casement (executed in Pentonville Prison in 1916) was honoured with a state funeral and reburial in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. 7 March – Changes to the Liturgy of the Catholic Mass were introduced. Mass was said in the vernacular (English) for the first time instead of in Latin. 18 March – The Northern Minister for Agriculture, Harry West attended a meeting with his Southern counterpart, Charles Haughey, in Dublin. 7 April – 1965 Irish general election: The ruling Fianna Fáil party under Seán Lemass gained a majority. This was the first Irish general election to be covered on television by state broadcaster RTÉ. The Clann na Talmhan party did not contest the election and was wound up. Members of the 18th Dáil assembled on 21 April. 18 April – The Gaelic Athletic Association Congress in Dublin decided that the ban on foreign games was to remain. 21 April – James Dillon resigned as leader of the Fine Gael party following his election defeat. Liam Cosgrave was the new leader. 24 May – The first drive-on car ferry service between Rosslare Harbour in County Wexford and Fishguard in Wales officially opened. 13 June – Huge crowds turned out at Drumcliff Churchyard in County Sligo to honour the poet W. B. Yeats on the centenary of his birth. 8 July – Taoiseach Seán Lemass was conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Law at Trinity College Dublin. 26 July – Craigavon was designated as a New Town under the New Towns Act (Northern Ireland). July–September – Newspaper strike in Dublin 15 August – Galway Cathedral was dedicated. 17 November – The remains of W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council were removed to the Church of the