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1950 in Northern Ireland

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Centuries:
  
20th21st

Decades:
  
1930s1940s1950s1960s1970s

Incumbents

  • Monarch - George VI

    • Events

  • 12 March - Llandow air disaster: 83 people die when a plane carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in South Wales.
  • 12 May - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
  • 3 July - Ulster Transport Authority closes the Ballycastle Railway and the Ballymena and Larne Railway.

    • Arts and literature

  • September - Poet Philip Larkin takes up a 5-year post as sub-librarian at Queen's University Belfast.

    • Sport

    This was the only year where Ireland didn't participate at the Commonwealth Games. (British Empire Games)

    Contents

    Football

  • Irish League
  • Irish Cup

    • Golf

  • British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner:Vicomtesse de St Sauveur).

    • Births

  • 16 February - Peter Hain. 16th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
  • 12 April - Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop in The Diocese of Down and Connor.
  • 23 May - Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP, MLA, and Deputy First Minister.
  • 23 June - Martin O'Hagan, journalist (died 2001).
  • 9 July - Alban Maginness, SDLP MLA.
  • 12 August - Medbh McGuckian, poet.
  • Paul Bew, Baron Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University of Belfast.
  • Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer (died 2006).
  • Brian Keenan, writer and hostage in Lebanon.

    • Deaths

  • 20 July - Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (born 1880).
  • James Sleator, painter (born 1889).

    • References

    1950 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia
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