1945 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1945 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

• Governor - The Duke of Abercorn (until 7 September), Earl Granville (from 7 September)
• Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events

• 27 February – Aircraft carrier is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast to British Admiralty order as HMS Powerful.
• 8 May – V-E Day is celebrated throughout the UK.
• 14 May – Formal surrender of German U-boats at Londonderry Port (HMS Ferret, Lisahally). As part of Operation Deadlight many are scuttled offshore.
• 16 May – Éamon de Valera replies in a radio broadcast to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.
• 26 July – 1945 United Kingdom general election.
• 15 August – V-J Day is celebrated in the UK.
• 21 August – Two Nationalist Members of Parliament, Eddie McAteer and Malachy Conlon, take the Oath of Allegiance and enter the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster.
• 15 October – Professor Eoin MacNeill dies in Dublin aged 77. He was a founder-member of the Gaelic League and the Irish Volunteers.
• 14 November – A convention meeting in Dungannon establishes the nationalist Irish Anti-Partition League.

Arts and literature

• John Luke paints The Old Callan Bridge and The Three Dancers.
• F. L. Green's novel Odd Man Out is published.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

:Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

:Winners: Linfield 4 – 2 Glentoran

Births

• 29 January – Jim Nicholson, Unionist politician and MEP for Northern Ireland.
• 12 June – Pat Jennings, international soccer player.
• 4 July – David McWilliams, singer, songwriter and guitarist (died 2002).
• 18 July – Pat Doherty, politician
• 16 August – Allan Bresland, DUP Northern Ireland Assembly member for West Tyrone.
• 25 August – Sammy Duddy, member of the Ulster Political Research Group (died 2007).
• 31 August – Van Morrison, singer and songwriter.
• 15 September – Dave Clements, soccer player and manager.
• 21 September – Shaw Clifton, General of The Salvation Army.
• 17 October – Jimmy Cricket (James Mulgrew), comedian.
• 31 October – Bobbie Hanvey, photographer and radio personality.
• 17 November – Damien Magee, racing driver.
• 5 December – Evin Crowley, actress.

Full date unknown

• Brendan Hamill, poet and writer.
• Martin Meehan, Sinn Féin politician, previously volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (died 2007).
• Ernie Rea, religious broadcaster.
• Graham Reid, playwright.
• James A. Sharkey, historian and Irish diplomat.

Deaths

• 13 October – Joseph MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (born 1861).
• 15 October – Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (born 1867).
• 20 December – John M. Lyle, architect in Canada (born 1872).

See also

• 1945 in Scotland
• 1945 in Wales

References