1947 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1947 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

• Governor - Earl Granville
• Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events

• 22 April – British Royal Navy aircraft carrier (laid down 1944) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• 11 August – The Enterprise express train service commences from Belfast to Dublin.
• The "bad winter" seen snow reach heights of 30 feet, lasting until May-June from the winter period.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League

:Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

:Winners: Belfast Celtic 1 – 0 Glentoran

GAA

• Cavan defeat Antrim 3-04 to 1–06 to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
• Cavan subsequently defeat Kerry 2–11 to 2–07 in New York City to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Golf

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

Swimming

• 27–28 July – English endurance swimmer Tom Blower becomes the first person to swim the North Channel, from Donaghadee in County Down to Portpatrick in Scotland.

Births

• 23 February – Ken Goodall, international rugby player (died 2006).
• 5 March – Clodagh Rodgers, singer (died 2025).
• 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 (died 1972).
• Eugene McMenamin, SDLP MLA
• Frank Ormsby, poet
• Eric Wrixon, musician

Deaths

• 2 January – Tom Ross, cricketer (born 1872)
• 4 January – Forrest Reid, novelist and literary critic (born 1875)
• 25 April – Richard Rowley, poet and writer (born 1877).

See also

• 1947 in Scotland
• 1947 in Wales

References