1954 in Northern Ireland

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

[edit] Events

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Derry City 2 - 2, 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Glentoran

[edit] Births

• 9 March - Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and MP who died on hunger strike (d.1981).
• 8 April - Joe Kernan, Gaelic footballer and manager.
• 28 April - Monica McWilliams, former Northern Ireland Women's Coalition politician and currently Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
• 11 May - Jane Morrice, former Northern Ireland Women's Coalition MLA.
• 23 May - Gerry Armstrong, footballer.
• 23 June - Michael Copeland, Unionist politician.
• 2 August - Sammy McIlroy, footballer and football manager.
• 28 August - Clive Culbertson, mystic, musician and healer.
• 12 October - Kieran Deeny, medical doctor turned independent politician and MLA.
• 19 October - Angela Feeney, opera singer.
• Eamon Collins, Provisional Irish Republican Army activist and writer (d.1999).
• Martin O'Brien, journalist.
• Marian Price, former volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

[edit] Deaths

• 1 May - James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (b.1865).
• 11 October - Thomas Leslie Teevan, Unionist politician and lawyer (b.1927).