commemorate British soldiers from Limerick who died in World War I. 30 September – Last day of operation of 97 miles (155 km) of railway in Northern Ireland (Great Northern Railway (Ireland) branches and the entire Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway) following government instructions. County Fermanagh lost all its lines. The GNR closed a further 84 miles (134 km) of connecting lines in the Republic on October 12. 2 October – The Minister for Health, Seán MacEntee, launched the Voluntary Health Insurance Board. 7 October – President Seán T. O'Kelly's country residence, Roundwood House, County Wicklow, was destroyed by fire. 10 October – The Windscale fire began with a fire in a graphite core of a reactor at the Windscale Nuclear Power station and reprocessing centre on the Cumberland coast of North West England. Years later there were claims that the radiation caused cancers and birth defects in County Louth. 27 October – The foundation stone of Galway Cathedral was blessed. 1 November – The Soviet satellite Sputnik was visible over Dublin for the second time in a month. November – Border Campaign: The premature explosion of a bomb at a farmhouse in County Louth killed four IRA men and a householder. Undated – Cyril Lord opened a new factory for the production of tufted carpets at Donaghadee, County Down. Arts and literature 13 January – Samuel Beckett's All That Fall (set in a fictionalised Foxrock) was first broadcast (on the BBC Third Programme in the U.K.), with J. G. Devlin in a leading role. 12 May – The Pike Theatre in Dublin staged the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo. During its short run the theatre was invaded by Gardaí and director Alan Simpson arrested for producing "a lewd entertainment" for a mime of dropping a condom onto the floor. The Bachelors musical group formed as The Harmonichords in Dublin. Publication of Tomás de Bhaldraithe's English-Irish Dictionary. Publication of Heinrich Böll's Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal). Sport Association football 19 May – Ireland 1–1 England (at Dalymount Park), after England grabbed a last minute equaliser to silence the 50,000 strong home support. Golf 27 June – Philomena Garvey won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship at Gleneagles. Births 17 January – Colm Burke, Fine Gael Lord Mayor of Cork, MEP. 22 January – Ray Flynn, Irish-American runner 7 February – Regina Joyce, long-distance runner. 15 February Dave Langan, soccer