1951 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 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• 2 February - Éamon de Valera visits Newry for the first time since his arrest there in 1924.
• 19 April - The Northern Ireland Attorney-General, Ed Warnock, referring to the Noel Browne's resignation, says that Ireland is really ruled by Maynooth.
• 1 July - Taoiseach Éamon de Valera pays his first visit to Derry in 25 years.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Glentoran 3 - 1 Ballymena United

[edit] Golf

• A qualifying round of The Open Championship is played at Portstewart Golf Club.
• Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 8 January - Alex Maskey, Sinn Féin MLA.
• 2 February - Steve Brennan, darts player.
• 23 February - David McClarty, Ulster Unionist Party MLA.
• 24 February - David Ford, leader of the Alliance Party and MLA.
• 3 March - Trevor Anderson, footballer and football manager.
• 4 April - Sean McIlvenna, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed during gun battle with the RUC (d.1984).
• 7 May - Denis Murray, television journalist.
• 10 May - Charlie Nash, boxer.
• 20 June - Paul Muldoon, poet.
• 27 June - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland.

[edit] July to December

• 30 August - Dana Rosemary Scallon, Eurovision Song Contest winner and former MEP.
• 4 September - John Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore, art collector.
• 14 September - Joe McDonnell, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who died in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (d.1981).
• 15 September - Ernest Charles Nelson, botanist.
• 20 September - David McCalden, Holocaust denier (d.1990).
• 20 December - Nuala O'Loan, first Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, between 1999 and 2007.

[edit] Full date unknown

• Brian Keenan, writer and former hostage in Lebanon.
• John Kindness, multi-media artist.
• Patrick Magee, former Provisional Irish Republican Army member involved in the Brighton hotel bombing and writer.
• Brendan McFarlane, Provisional Irish Republican Army member, Maze escapee, facing alleged kidnapping trial.
• Malachi O'Doherty, journalist, author, broadcaster.
• Dolours Price, former volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

[edit] Deaths

• 18 January - Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary and writer (b.1867).
• 4 November - Charles Billingsley, cricketer (b.1910).