1977 in Northern Ireland

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1977 in Northern Ireland

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

[edit] Events

• May 29 - A massive peace rally takes place in Belfast organized by Betty Williams, Mairéad Corrigan and Ciarán McKeown.
• October 5 - Seamus Costello, leader of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, shot dead in Dublin.
• October 10 - The Peace Movement founders, Mairéad Corrigan and Betty Williams win the Nobel Prize for Peace.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Coleraine 4 - 1 Linfield

[edit] Births

• 10 March- Colin Murray, Radio DJ.
• 10 August - Danny Griffin, footballer.
• 23 August - Davy Larmour, footballer.
• 6 December - Paul McVeigh, footballer.
• 16 December - Darren Fitzgerald, footballer.

[edit] Deaths

• 3 March - Brian Faulkner, sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
• 17 April - William Cardinal Conway, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh (b.1913).
• 24 April - Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and politician.
• 2 June - Stephen Boyd, actor (b.1931).