native Inniskeen, County Monaghan. The Censorship of Publications Act provided that prohibition orders made on the grounds of indecency or obscenity would expire after twelve years. The New Writers Press was founded by poets Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce with Smith's wife Irene in Dublin to publish poetry. Eavan Boland's poems New Territory were published. John Montague's poems A Chosen Light were published. Flann O'Brien's novel, The Third Policeman (written 1939–40), was published posthumously in London. Edward Delaney's bronze statue Wolfe Tone was completed. The Project Arts Centre was founded in Dublin. Sport 19 November – Jimmy O'Connor scored the world's fastest ever hat-trick in a first-class association football match when he scored three goals in 2 minutes and 13 seconds (some sources dispute this, and claim the actual time was 2 minutes and 14 seconds) for Shelbourne F.C. against Bohemian F.C. in a League of Ireland match at Dalymount Park. Births 12 January – Gary Kirby, Limerick hurler. 22 January – Eleanor McEvoy, singer songwriter. 6 February – Susan McKeown, folk singer. 1 March Justin Benson, cricketer. Ann Gallagher, Labour Party politician. 14 March – Willie O'Connor, Kilkenny hurler. 16 March – Terry Phelan, footballer born in England of Irish descent 17 March – Angus Dunlop, cricketer. 3 April – Liam Twomey, doctor, Fine Gael party Teachta Dála (TD), Senator. 20 April – Alan McLoughlin, footballer born in England of Irish descent (died 2021). 25 April – Alan Kernaghan, footballer born in England of Irish descent. 6 May –John Fitzgibbon, Cork hurler. 16 May – Barry Andrews, Fianna Fáil politician, TD for Dún Laoghaire. 19 May – Geraldine Somerville, actress. 26 May – Philip Treacy, hat designer. July – Anne Marie Forrest, author. 6 July – Mark Foley, Cork hurler. 4 September – Cathal Casey, Cork hurler. 12 September – Kieran McGuckin, Cork hurler. 15 October Lawrence Roche, road racing cyclist. Don Wycherley, actor 13 December – Noel Fitzpatrick, veterinary surgeon. Full date unknown Tina Kellegher, actress Brian Smyth, painter. Enda Walsh, playwright. Deaths 1 January – Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin party TD, a founder-member of the Cumann na nGaedheal party and later Fine Gael party (born 1893). 28 January – Helena Molony, fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and first woman president of the Irish Trades Union Congress (born 1884). 10 March – Ina Boyle, composer (born 1889). 16 March – Thomas MacGreevy, poet and director of the