Events during the year 1954 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
:Winners: Linfield
:Winners: Derry City 2 â 2, 0 â 0, 1 â 0 Glentoran
Births
- 9 March â Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and MP (died on hunger strike 1981).
- 8 April â Joe Kernan, Gaelic footballer and manager.
- 28 April â Monica McWilliams, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition MLA, later Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
- 11 May â Jane Morrice, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition MLA.
- 23 May â Gerry Armstrong, footballer.
- 23 June â Michael Copeland, Unionist politician.
- 2 August â Sammy McIlroy, footballer and football manager.
- 28 August â Clive Culbertson, mystic, musician and healer.
- 12 October â Kieran Deeny, medical doctor turned independent politician and MLA.
- 19 October â Angela Feeney, opera singer.
- Eamon Collins, Provisional Irish Republican Army activist and writer (died 1999).
- Martin O'Brien, journalist.
- Marian Price, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer.
Deaths
See also
References