1949 in Northern Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Golf 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

• 17 April - At midnight 26 counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
• 3 May - The British Government passes an act guaranteeing the position of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom as long as a majority of its citizens want it to be. The government also recognises the existence of the Republic of Ireland.
• 10 May - The Oireachtas motion calls a "Protest Against Partition" because of the Ireland Act provisions.
• 13 May - John A. Costello, Eamon de Valera, William Norton and Seán MacBride share a platform to protest the British government's attitude to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.
• 25 May - Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh receive the freedom of Belfast during a visit to the city.
• 8 November - Street names in any language other than English are prohibited by an Amendment to a Bill passed in the Senate of Northern Ireland.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Derry City 1 - 0 Glentoran

• Belfast Celtic withdrew from the Irish League at the end of a season which had seen crowd trouble at a match against Linfield five months earlier.

[edit] Golf

• Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup.

[edit] Births

• 14 January - Donovan McClelland, Social Democratic and Labour Party politician.
• 25 January - Tom Paulin, poet and critic.
• 23 February - Christopher Harte, cricketer.
• 17 March - Pat Rice, footballer and football coach.
• 18 March - Alex Higgins, snooker player.
• 1 April - Sammy Nelson, footballer.
• 8 April - Graham Crothers, cricketer.
• 6 August - Alan Campbell, Pentecostal pastor.
• 1 September - Alasdair McDonnell, Social Democratic and Labour Party MP and MLA.
• 6 September - Iris Robinson, Democratic Unionist Party MP for Strangford and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• 18 September - Mo Mowlam, 11th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

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• Pat Finucane, solicitor murdered by loyalist paramilitaries (d.1989).
• David McKittrick, journalist and writer.

[edit] Deaths

• 2 March - Cecil Lowry-Corry, 6th Earl Belmore, High Sheriff and councillor (b.1873).
• 19 September - George Shiels, dramatist (b.1886).

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• Robert Wilson Lynd, writer (b.1879).