1955 in Northern Ireland

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

[edit] Events

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Dundela 3 - 0 Glenavon

[edit] Births

• 11 January - Brian Gregory, footballer.
• 20 January - Joe Doherty, former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
• 25 February - Davy Hyland, former Sinn Féin , now independent, MLA.
• 28 March - John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice, Alliance Party politician and Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1998-2004.
• 2 April - Michael Stone, loyalist paramilitary who carried out the Milltown Massacre, currently under arrest after illegally entering Stormont while armed.
• 23 June - Ken Reid, television journalist.
• 1 August - Adrian Logan, television sports presenter and reporter.
• 27 September - Felix Healy, footballer and football manager.
• 30 September - Frankie Kennedy, traditional flute and tin whistle player and co-founder of Altan (d.1994).
• 16 October - Kieran Doherty, Irish republican hunger striker and volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (d.1981).
• 7 December - John McClelland, footballer.

[edit] Deaths

• 14 May - Robert Quigg, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme (b.1885).
• 18 July - Billy McCandless, footballer and football manager (b.1894).
• 14 December - Paddy Mayne, international rugby union footballer and decorated soldier (b.1915).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Moira O'Neill, poet (b.1864).