1975 in Northern Ireland

Events

*31 July - Three members of the "Miami Showband" are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack as they return from a dance in County Down. (See: Miami Showband killings)

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Coleraine 1 - 1, 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Linfield

Births

*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.

Full date unknown

*Cara Dillon, folk singer.
*Nick Laird, novelist and poet.
*Jason Maher, writer.

Deaths

*23 February - Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (b.1889).
*28 April - Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer, killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army (b.1927).
*25 October - Padraig Marrinan, artist (b.1906).
*25 November - Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (b.1895).

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