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| 1953 |
| | Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant Godot') is first performed in French in Paris | |
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| 1954 |
| | Anglo-Irish novelist Iris Murdoch publishes her first novel, Under the Net | |
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| 1957 |
| | De Valera takes stringent measures against the IRA and Sinn Fein, detaining activists in an internment camp | |
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| 1958 |
| | Irish writer Brendan Behan's autobiographical Borstal Boy is published | |
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| 1959 |
| | On the retirement of de Valera, Sean Lemass succeeds him as leader of Fianna F´il and prime minister of Ireland | |
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| 1960 |
| | Irish author Edna O'Brien publishes her first novel, The Country Girls | |
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| 1963 |
| | Terence O'Neill succeeds Basil Brooke (Lord Brookeborough) as Northern Ireland's prime minister | |
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| 1965 |
| | Terence O'Neill and Séan Lemass, prime ministers of Northern Ireland and Ireland, have two unprecedented meetings | |
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| 1966 |
| | Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins critical acclaim for Death of a Naturalist, his first volume containing more than a few poems | |
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| 1967 |
| | Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman has a great success when published posthumously | |
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