Events in the year 1963 in Ireland.
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- 7 January – Tony O'Sullivan, Cork hurler.
- February – Theresa Lowe, television presenter.
- 3 March – Conor Lenihan, Fianna Fáil party Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin South-West and Minister of State.
- 19 March – Mark Dearey, businessman and Green Party councillor in Dundalk.
- 25 March – Kevin O'Rourke, economic historian, born in Switzerland.
- 26 March – Paul Doolin, association football player.
- 29 March – Pat Gallagher, Labour Party politician.
- 3 April – Ciarán Cuffe, Green Party TD for Dún Laoghaire.
- 4 April – Graham Norton, actor, comedian and television presenter.
- 1 June – Michael Creed, Fine Gael party TD for Cork North-West.
- 3 June – Lucy Grealy, poet and memoirist (died 2002).
- 13 June – Larry Tompkins, Kildare and Cork Gaelic footballer.
- 21 June – Carlos O'Connell, decathlete.
- 25 June – Liam Walsh, Kilkenny hurler.
- 26 June – Tomás Mulcahy, Cork hurler.
- 23 July – Andy Townsend, association football player.
- 28 July – Eamon Ryan, Green Party TD for Dublin South and Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications.
- 22 August – Terry McHugh, javelin thrower.
- 31 August – Todd Carty, actor.
- 10 September – Marian Keyes, novelist.
- 24 September – Margaret Cox, Fianna Fáil senator.
- 25 September – Niall Cahalane, Cork Gaelic footballer.
- 9 November – Kieran O'Regan, association football player.
- 13 November – Joe Dooley, Offaly hurler, manager.
- 1 December – Paul Bradford, Fine Gael senator.
- 5 December – Tony Keady, Galway hurler (died 2017).
- 17 January – Thomas Johnson, first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party, aged 91.
- 1 February – John Cardinal D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1946 to 1963 (born 1882).
- 4 February – Brinsley MacNamara, novelist and playwright (born 1890).
- 22 February – Padraig O'Keeffe, fiddle player (born 1887).
- 3 March – Brian O'Higgins, Sinn Féin party member of parliament and party president (born 1882).
- 19 March – Joseph Brennan, civil servant and Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (born 1887).
- 16 May – Patrick Little, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet minister (born 1884).
- 31 May – Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (born 1881).
- 12 June – Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British admiral of the Second World War and First Sea Lord (born 1883).
- 23 June – George C. Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal party TD, later joined Fine Gael and Seanad Éireann member (born 1877).
- 11 October – John Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1907).
- 30 October – Hugh O'Flaherty, Catholic priest, saved about 4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in the Vatican during World War II (born 1898).
- 30 October – Domhnall Ua Buachalla, member of the First Dáil, Fianna Fáil TD, last Governor-General of the Irish Free State (born 1866).
- 2 November – Daniel Mannix, Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years (born 1864).
- 22 November – C. S. Lewis, novelist (born 1898).
- November – Patrick MacGill, journalist, poet, and novelist (born 1889).
- 4 December – William Norton, Labour Party leader, TD, and Cabinet minister (born 1900).
- 15 December – Oscar Traynor, Fianna Fáil politician (born 1886).
- December – Andy Kennedy, association footballer (born 1897).
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