From 1976 to 1978, Widdecombe was a councillor for Runnymede District in Surrey.

Since 1978, each Mayor must also be an elected councillor.

An active member of the Chelsea Conservative Association, he was elected as a councillor to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 1978 and remained a councillor until his election as a Member of Parliament ( MP ) in 1987.

Regional councillor of Île-de-France: 1978 – 1988 ( Resignation ).

Maude served a councillor for the City of Westminster from 1978 to 1984.

He quickly became a trade union official, and moved into politics, becoming a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Haringey in 1978.

In 1978 and 1982, he was again elected city councillor under the Municipal Action Group banner, and in 1986 was re-elected as an independent candidate.

She was also a councillor in the London Borough of Barnet from 1978 to 1986.

From 1978 to 1987, he served as a councillor on the Mississauga City Council and the Regional Council of Peel.

After being New Zealand's youngest city councillor at 22 ( in Christchurch ), he was an MP from 1978 to 1996, representing the Labour Party.

He served in various capacities including mayor of Wilmot Township ( 1988 ), Township councillor ( 1978 ) and regional councillor ( 1985 – 1997 ).

He was the State Chairman of the Socialist Students of Austria, the student organisation of the SPÖ from 1975 to 1978, a member of the Viennese Municipal Council from 1983 to 1988, and until 1994, the town councillor for the environment and sport.

Frederick J. Beavis ( 1914 – 1997 ) was a longtime city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, who briefly served as interim mayor of the city in 1978.

Her cousins David and Tony Guergis were the mayors of Essa and Springwater, her sister Christine Brayford was a municipal councillor in New Tecumseth, their uncle Edward was a municipal councillor in Essa from 1978 to 1985, and their grandfather George was a reeve of Essa from 1971 to 1974.

Moscoe was first elected to the North York city council in 1978, defeating incumbent councillor Murray Markin in the city's fourth ward.

He also served as reeve of South Dumfries Township from 1978 to 1991, and was a councillor in Brant County.

He was an educator, and also served as a councillor in Thunder Bay from 1972 to 1978 and from 1982 to 1987.

He was elected a ward councillor in Flamborough in 1978, a regional councillor in 1980 and mayor in 1982.

The Espace's design was originally conceived in the 1970s by the British designer, Fergus Pollock, ( at around the same time as Giorgetto Giugiaro's 1978 Lancia Megagamma concept MPV ), who was working for Chrysler UK ( formerly the Rootes Group ), at their design centre at Whitley, ( now the Jaguar design centre ) in Coventry.

* 1978 William Fergus Lothian

* 1978 – Alan Maybury, Irish footballer

* 1978 – Alan Lee, Irish footballer

* 1978 – Sinead Kerr, Irish figure skater

* Led by Coach Digger Phelps, the Irish made a trip to the 1978 Final Four where they lost to the Duke Blue Devils.

* 1978 – Brian Dowling, Irish television host

* 1978 – Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer

* 1978 – Diarmuid O ' Sullivan, Irish hurler

* 1978 – Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player

* 1978 – Annie Mac, Irish radio and television host

* 1978 – Stuart Elliott, Irish footballer

* 1978 – John Meighan, Irish Clann na Talmhan politician ( b. 1891 )

* 1978 – Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer

* 1978 – Mick O ' Driscoll, Irish rugby player

* 1978 – Nicky Byrne, Irish musician ( Westlife )

It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice ( 1909 ), Love's Surprises Are Futile ( 1916 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1917 ), Dary magów ( Poland, 1972 ), part of O. Henry's Full House ( 1952 ), The Gift of Love ( 1978 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1958 ), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street ( 1978 ), Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas gift ( 1999 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 2004 ) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time.

* James Murray ( hurler ) ( born 1978 ), Irish hurler who plays with Waterford GAA

She had a romantic role in the BBC television film Langrishe, Go Down ( 1978 ), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played one of three spinster sisters living in a fading Irish mansion in the Waterford countryside.

* John Anderson ( hurler ) ( born 1978 ), Irish hurler

In 1978 the Irish economy recorded the biggest deficit for an advanced country at 17. 6 % deficit.

Walker ( Royal Irish Academy 1978 )

* Stephen Farrelly ( born 1978 ), Irish professional wrestler and actor. Sheamus

This prompted the appointment in 1978, by Mr John Bruton, T. D., of the Cospóir Long Distance Walking Routes Committee ( now the National Trails Advisory Committee of the Irish Sport Council ) to establish a national network of long-distance paths in Ireland.

When Dad's Army run ended in 1977, Lowe remained much in demand taking starring roles in television comedies such as Bless Me Father with Daniel Abineri ( 1978 – 81 ) as the mischievous Irish priest Father Charles Clement Duddleswell – quite a departure from the pompous characters that Lowe usually portrayed – and Potter ( 1979 – 80 ), as busybody Redvers Potter.

Kieran Kelly ( 25 June 1978 – 12 August 2003 ) was a top Irish jump jockey who died as a result of a racing accident.