1950 in Northern Ireland
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[edit] Events
- 12 March - 83 people die when a plane carrying rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in Wales.
- 12 May - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
- 3 July - Ulster Transport Authority closes the Ballycastle Railway[1] and the Ballymena and Larne Railway.[2]
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
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- Winners: Linfield
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- Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Distillery
[edit] Golf
- British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner:Vicomtesse de St Sauveur).
[edit] Births
- 16 February - Peter Hain. 16th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
- 12 April - Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop in The Diocese of Down and Connor.
- 23 May - Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP, MLA, and Deputy First Minister.
- 23 June - Martin O'Hagan, journalist (d.2001).
- 9 July - Alban Maginness, SDLP MLA.
- 12 August - Medbh McGuckian, poet.
- Paul Bew, Baron Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University of Belfast.
- Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer (d.2006).
[edit] Deaths
- 20 July - Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (b.1880).
- James Sleator, painter (b.1889).
[edit] References
- ^ Ballycastle Railway Station. Ballycastle. Retrieved on 2007-10-27.
- ^ Ferris, T (1993). The Irish Narrow Gauge (Volume 2, The Ulster Lines). Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-017-6.
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