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1967 in Northern Ireland

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Centuries:
  
20th 21st

Decades:
  
1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Incumbents

  • Monarch - Elizabeth II
  • Events

  • 29 January - Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association founded in Belfast.
  • 6 September - Myrina is launched from the Musgrave Yard slipway at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, the first supertanker and (at around 192000 DWT) largest ship built in the United Kingdom up to this date.
  • December - Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill meet for talks at Stormont.
  • Arts and literature

  • The first treasure from the Spanish Armada wreck Girona is recovered.
  • The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society is founded under the chairmanship of Charles Brett.
  • Football

  • Irish League
  • Irish Cup
  • Births

  • 9 January - Uel Graham, former cricketer.
  • 11 February- Paul McLoone, frontman with The Undertones, voice actor and a radio presenter with Today FM.
  • 17 February - Gary Fleming, soccer player.
  • 4 April - David Perry, video game developer.
  • 26 April - Robbie Millar, chef and restaurateur (died 2005).
  • 24 May - Deirdre Gribbin, composer.
  • 2 June - Alan Rutherford, cricketer.
  • 1 October - Geraldine Heaney, defenceman (ice hockey) and head coach.
  • 24 October - Terence Bannon, mountaineer.
  • 27 November - Andrea Catherwood, television news presenter.
  • 14 December - George O'Boyle, soccer player.
  • Full date unknown

  • Sean Connor, soccer player and manager.
  • Mairtín Crawford, poet and journalist (died 2004).
  • Paul Kearney, author.
  • Dawn Purvis, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party and MLA.
  • Deaths

  • 28 February - Dick Keith, footballer (born 1933).
  • Sam English, soccer player (born 1908).
  • References

    1967 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia