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Monarch - Elizabeth II
1 January - Border Campaign: Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in an Irish Republican Army attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh. Following this, the Government of Ireland uses the Offences Against the State Act to intern most of the IRA’s leadership.
12 January - Over 100 Irish republican suspects are arrested under the Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland).
17 January - Aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22), laid down in 1943 at the Harland and Wolff Belfast shipyard as HMS Powerful, is commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy.
30 September - Last day of operation of 97 miles (155 km) of railway in Northern Ireland (Great Northern Railway (Ireland) branches and the entire Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway) following government instructions. Fermanagh loses all its lines.
undated - Cyril Lord opens a new factory for the production of tufted carpets at Donaghadee, County Down.
Arts and literature
Padraic Fiacc publishes Woe to the Boy.
Irish League
Irish Cup
21 January - Terence Francis MacCarthy, genealogist, historian, and writer.
3 March
Mairéad Farrell, volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed by SAS soldiers during Operation Flavius (died 1988).
Patricia Lewsley, former Social Democratic and Labour Party politician, now Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People.
19 March - Patrick Joseph Kelly, Commander of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, killed by Special Air Service at Loughgall (died 1987).
27 April - Jim Wells, Democratic Unionist Party MLA.
9 May - Billy Hamilton, footballer.
23 May - Jimmy McShane (aka Baltimora), dancer and singer (died 1995).
4 August - Henry Cluney, guitarist.
16 August - Roberta Blackman-Woods, academic and politician
29 August - Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde, Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, killed in armed confrontation with British troops (died 1984).
13 September - Mal Donaghy, footballer.
16 September - David McCreery, footballer.
30 November - Daniel McCann, volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed by SAS soldiers during Operation Flavius (died 1988).
Séanna Breathnach, former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Roy Walker, footballer and football manager.
29 March - Joyce Cary, novelist and artist (born 1888).
1 August - Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer (born 1867).
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