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Monarch - Elizabeth II
31 July - Miami Showband killings: Three members of The Miami Showband, together with two paramilitaries, are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force ambush in County Down as they return home to Dublin from playing at a dance in Banbridge.
Arts and literature
14 May - Patrick Galvin's We Do It For Love, a satire on The Troubles, opens at the Lyric Theatre (Belfast).
October - Stewart Parker's Spokesong opens at the Lyric (Belfast); his play I’m a Dreamer, Montreal is also written this year.
The punk rock/new wave band which will become The Undertones is formed in Londonderry.
William Peskett's poems The Nightowl’s Dissection are published.
Irish League
Ballinamallard United F.C. established
Irish Cup
18 February - Keith Gillespie, international soccer player.
9 June - Brian Magee, boxer.
24 July - Gordon Cooke, cricketer.
27 August - Kyle McCallan, cricketer.
4 September - Andrew Patterson, cricketer.
13 October - Oisín McConville, Armagh Gaelic footballer.
4 November - Warren Christie, actor.
Cara Dillon, folk singer.
Nick Laird, novelist and poet.
Jason Maher, writer.
23 February - Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (born 1889).
28 April - Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer, killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army (born 1927).
25 October - Padraig Marrinan, artist (born 1906).
25 November - Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (born 1895).
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