1951 in Northern Ireland

1951 in Northern Ireland

Events

*2 February - Éamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
*19 April - The Northern Ireland Attorney-General, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, says that "Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth."
*1 July - Taoiseach Éamon de Valera pays his first visit to Derry in 25 years.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Glentoran

*Irish Cup::Winners: Glentoran 3 - 1 Ballymena United

Golf

*A qualifying round of The Open Championship is played at Portstewart Golf Club.
*Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup.

Births

January to June

*8 January - Alex Maskey, Sinn Féin MLA.
*2 February - Steve Brennan, darts player.
*23 February - David McClarty, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
*24 February - David Ford, leader of the Alliance Party and MLA.
*3 March - Trevor Anderson, footballer and football manager.
*4 April - Sean McIlvenna, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed during gun battle with the RUC (d.1984).
*7 May - Denis Murray, television journalist.
*10 May - Charlie Nash, boxer.
*20 June - Paul Muldoon, poet.
*27 June - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland.

July to December

*30 August - Dana Rosemary Scallon, Eurovision Song Contest winner and former MEP.
*4 September - John Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore, art collector.
*14 September - Joe McDonnell, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who died in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (d.1981).
*15 September - Ernest Charles Nelson, botanist.
*20 September - David McCalden, Holocaust denier (d.1990).
*20 December - Nuala O'Loan, first Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, between 1999 and 2007.

Full date unknown

*Brian Keenan, writer and former hostage in Lebanon.
*John Kindness, multi-media artist.
*Patrick Magee, former Provisional Irish Republican Army member involved in the Brighton hotel bombing and writer.
*Brendan McFarlane, Provisional Irish Republican Army member, Maze escapee, facing alleged kidnapping trial.
*Malachi O'Doherty, journalist, author, broadcaster.
*Dolours Price, former volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Deaths

*18 January - Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer (b.1867).
*4 November - Charles Billingsley, cricketer (b.1910).


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