* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1971 – Michael Hughes, Irish footballer

* 1971 – Roy Keane, Irish footballer

* 1971 – Mildred Fox, Irish politician

* 1924 – Charlie Tully, Irish footballer ( d. 1971 )

* 1899 – Seán Lemass, Irish politician ( d. 1971 )

* 1971 – Dylan Moran, Irish comedian

* 1971 – Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress

In early 1971 Heath sent in a Secret Intelligence Service officer, Frank Steele, to talk to the Provisional Irish Republican Army and find out what common ground there was for negotiations.

In 1971, when asked by an Irish Times journalist on his thoughts regarding U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy's calls for a stronger peace initiative in Northern Ireland, Hogg slammed his fist on the table and exclaimed " those Roman Catholic bastards have no right to interfere!

The Irish Army purchased 15 of the vehicles ( originally intended for the police force in the Belgian Congo ) in 1971 at a bargain price.

Seán Francis Lemass ( 15 July 1899 – 11 May 1971 ) was one of the most prominent Irish politicians of the 20th century.

In 1971, Coburn starred in the spaghetti western Duck, You Sucker !, directed by Sergio Leone, as an Irish explosives expert and revolutionary who has fled to Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century.

* Kane, R. ( 1971 ) Industrial Resources of Ireland, The Development of industrial society series, Shannon, Ireland: Irish University Press, ISBN 0-7165-1599-7

* Irish regnal succession-a reappraisal, Donnchadh O Corrain, Studia Hibernica 11, 1971, pp7 – 39

Tiffany was born in 1971, to parents James Robert Darwish ( of Lebanese and Syrian descent ) and Janie Wilson ( of mostly Irish and some distant Cherokee descent ).

The Ulster Defence Association emerged from a series of meetings during the summer of 1971 of loyalist " vigilante " groups called " defence associations " formed to protect Protestant areas from attacks by Irish republicans.

On Decimal Day, 15 February 1971, the United Kingdom decimalised the pound sterling and Ireland decimalised the Irish pound.

The threepence or thruppenny bit was a denomination of currency used by various jurisdictions in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, valued at 1 / 80 of a pound or ¼ of a shilling until decimalisation of the pound sterling and Irish pound in 1971.

* John Connolly ( Irish footballer ) ( born 1971 ), Irish footballer

Richard James Mulcahy ( 10 May 1886 – 16 December 1971 ) was an Irish politician, Army General and Commander-in-chief, leader of Fine Gael and Cabinet minister.

The most important event of his tenure as minister was the decimalisation of the Irish currency in 1971.

* " Mademoiselle Nobs " from Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii ( 1971 ) who " sings " a song with the band.

* Caronte ( Charon ), a 1971 album by Italian band The Trip

After the band disbanded in 1971, Jones reunited with Micky Dolenz as well as Monkees songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart in 1974 as a short-lived group called Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart.

In 1972 Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

By 1971, Friedman had formed his second band, Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys, which many took to be a play on the name of the famous band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

In 1971, Lemmy joined the space rock band, Hawkwind, who were based in Ladbroke Grove, London, as a bassist and vocalist.

In 1971, Barış Manço joined as vocalist and the band was renamed Manchomongol.

Hart joined the Grateful Dead in September 1967, and left in February 1971 when he extricated himself from the band, due to conflict between band management and Mickey's father.

* 1971 – Justin Chancellor, Bassist for the band Tool

* 1971 – Neil Fallon, Lead singer of Clutch ( band )

The band was fronted by Egyptian singer Kyra Pharao ( born 17 January 1971 ) and the American rapper Deon Blue ( born 20 January 1970 ).

The band signed to Epic Records in 1971.

They became a recognised symphonic prog band when they reformed in 1971 with Annie Haslam as the vocalist for the album Prologue ( 1972 ).

Dutch band Focus, containing Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman, began to assert symphonic prog with their second album Focus II ( Moving Waves ) ( 1971 ) despite their hit song " Hocus Pocus " ( which is noted for lead singer Thijs van Leer's yodeling ).

In the later half of the 1970s, The Stranglers toured Japan twice, joining the alternative music scene of Tokyo, which was evolving from the punk sound of Kyoto based band 村八分 ( Ostracism ), whose music influence spread to Tokyo in 1971.

The first performance of the band using the name " The Residents " was at The Boarding House in San Francisco in 1971.

At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.

Tensions between members during the recording of 666 eventually caused the split of the band in 1971, but the album was still released in 1972.

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of the late Freddie Mercury ( lead vocals, piano ), Brian May ( guitar, vocals ), John Deacon ( bass guitar ), and Roger Taylor ( drums, vocals ).

Other long-term members of the group included Peter Baumann ( 1971 – 1977 ), who later went on to found the New Age label Private Music, to which the band was signed from 1988 to 1991 ; Johannes Schmoelling ( 1979 – 1985 ); Paul Haslinger ( 1986 – 1990 ); and, most recently Froese's son Jerome Froese ( 1990 – 2006 ).

In 1971, Wakeman joined the progressive rock band Yes, replacing their organist Tony Kaye.

American musician Bob Welch joined the British blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac in 1971, after the departure of founder Peter Green.