1950 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1950 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

• Governor - Earl Granville
• Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events

• 12 March – Llandow air disaster: 83 people die when a plane carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in South Wales.
• 12 May – Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
• 3 July – Ulster Transport Authority closes the Ballycastle Railway and the Ballymena and Larne Railway.

Arts and literature

• September - Poet Philip Larkin takes up a 5-year post as sub-librarian at Queen's University Belfast.

Sport

This was the only year where Ireland didn't participate at the Commonwealth Games. (British Empire Games)

Football

• Irish League

:Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

:Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Distillery

Golf

• British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club (winner:Vicomtesse de St Sauveur).

Births

• 22 January – Paul Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University of Belfast.
• 16 February – Peter Hain, 16th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• 12 April – Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor.
• 23 May – Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP, MLA and Deputy First Minister (died 2017).
• 23 June – Martin O'Hagan, journalist (died 2001).
• 9 July – Alban Maginness, SDLP MLA.
• 12 August – Medbh McGuckian, poet.
• 28 September – Brian Keenan, writer and hostage in Lebanon.
• 16 December – Dolours Price, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and political activist (died 2013).
• Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer (died 2006).

Deaths

• 20 July – Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (born 1880).
• James Sleator, painter (born 1889).

See also

• 1950 in Scotland
• 1950 in Wales

References