1981 in Northern Ireland
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1981 in Northern Ireland
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[edit] Events
- January 16- Northern Ireland civil rights campaigner and former Westminster MP, Bernadette McAliskey is shot and injured at her home in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Loyalist terrorists suspected.[1]
- March 1 - Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Long Kesh prison in Belfast.
- April 10 - Bobby Sands is elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
- May 5 - Bobby Sands dies on the 66th day of his hunger strike in the Maze Prison in Belfast.
- May 12 - Francis Hughes, previously the most wanted man in the North, dies on the 59th day of his hunger strike in Belfast (joined hungerstrike March 15).
- May 21 - Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara both die on the 61st day of their hunger strike in the Maze Prison (joined hungerstrike March 22).
- July 8 - IRA hunger striker Joe McDonnell dies (joined hungerstrike May 9).
- July 13 - Hunger striket Martin Hurson dies (joined hungerstrike May 29).
- August 1 - Hunger striker Kevin Lynch dies (joined hungerstrike May 23).
- August 2 - Kieran Doherty, TD for Cavan-Monaghan, dies on the 73rd day of his hunger strike (joined hungerstrike May 22).
- August 8 - Hunger striker Thomas McElwee dies (joined hungerstrike June 8).
- August 20 - Hunger striker Micky Devine dies (joined hungerstrike June 22).
- October 3 - Hunger strike officially ends.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
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- Winners: Glentoran
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- Winners: Ballymena United 1 - 0 Glenavon
[edit] Births
- 20 January - Nathan Connolly, musician with Snow Patrol.
- 27 March - Terry McFlynn, footballer.
[edit] Deaths
- 21 January - Sir Norman Stronge, 8th Baronet, Ulster Unionist Party politician and Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for 23 years (b.1894).
