1947 in Northern Ireland

1947 in Northern Ireland

Events

*11 August - The Enterprise Express service commences from Belfast to Dublin.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Belfast Celtic

*Irish Cup::Winners: Belfast Celtic 1 - 0 Glentoran

Golf

*Fred Daly wins The Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake.
*Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup.

Births

*23 February - Ken Goodall, international rugby player (d.2006).
*5 March - Clodagh Rodgers, singer.
*24 March - John Dallat, Social Democratic and Labour Party politician.
*17 April - Linda Martin, singer.
*23 April - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Member of UK Parliament.
*8 May - Dr John Reid, 13th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Home Secretary.
*18 May - Eileen Pollock, actress.
*19 May - Paul Brady, singer/songwriter.
*12 August - Seamus Close, former Alliance Party MLA.
*3 September - Eric Bell, guitarist.
*26 October - Sir Reg Empey, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
*5 December - Seán Quinn, businessman.

Full date unknown

*Paul Haller, Soto Zen Buddhist teacher and Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center.
*Joe McCann, Official Irish Republican Army volunteer killed by British soldiers (d.1972).
*Eugene McMenamin, SDLP MLA.
*Frank Ormsby, poet.
*Dave Smyth, record producer.
*Eric Wrixon, musician.

Deaths

*2 January - Tom Ross, cricketer (b.1872).
*Richard Rowley, poet and writer (b.1877).


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