1945 in Northern Ireland

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1945 in Northern Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• May 8 - V-E Day is celebrated throughout the UK.
• May 16 - Éamon de Valera replies in a radio broadcast to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.
• July 26 - United Kingdom general election, 1945.
• August 15- V-J Day is celebrated in the UK.
• August 21 - Two nationalist MPs take the Oath of Allegiance and enter the Westminster parliament.
• October 15 - Professor Eoin MacNeill dies in Dublin aged 77. He was a founder-member of the Gaelic League and the Irish Volunteers.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 4 - 2 Glentoran

[edit] Births

• 29 January - Jim Nicholson, Unionist politician and MEP for Northern Ireland.
• 12 June - Pat Jennings, footballer.
• 4 July - David McWilliams, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (d.2002).
• 31 August - Van Morrison, singer and songwriter.
• 31 October - Bobbie Hanvey, photographer and radio personality.
• 5 December - Evin Crowley, actress.
• Brendan Hamill, poet and writer.
• James A. Sharkey, historian and Irish diplomat.

[edit] Deaths

• 13 October - Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (b.1861).
• 15 October - Eoin MacNeill, university professor, Irish revolutionary TD and Gaelic scholar.