1953 in Northern Ireland

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1953 in Northern Ireland

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

[edit] Events

• January 31 - The car ferry, MV Princess Victoria sailing from Stranraer, Scotland to Larne, Northern Ireland, sinks in the Irish Sea killing 133 people onboard. Among the dead included Northern Ireland Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Major Maynard Sinclair, and Sir Walter Smiles, the Ulster Unionist MP for North Down.
• March 16 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. asks the American Congress to support a United Ireland.
• August 2 - Murlough Bay in the Antrim Glens is chosen as the future grave of Roger Casement. An Taoiseach Eamon de Valera calls for the return of his remains.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 5 - 0 Coleraine

[edit] Births

• 23 January - Alister McGrath, Christian theologian, currently Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford.
• 9 February - Ciarán Hinds, actor.
• 9 February - George Ennis, UK Unionist Party MLA.
• 15 February - Gregory Campbell, Democratic Unionist Party MP for East Londonderry.
• 2 April - Jim Allister, Democratic Unionist Party MEP and a QC.
• 4 April - Sammy Wilson, Democratic Unionist Party MP for East Antrim, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• 21 July - David Ervine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (d.2007).
• 6 August - Jamie Delargy, television journalist.
• 21 October - Peter Mandelson, 12th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and European Commissioner.
• 4 December - Paul Clark, television presenter and journalist.
• Gordy Blair, bass guitarist.
• Gearóid Ó hEára, Sinn Féin politician and former Mayor of Derry.

[edit] Deaths

• 12 September - James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, Unionist politician and first Governor of Northern Ireland (b.1869).