1957 in Northern Ireland

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

[edit] Events

• 1 January - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in an IRA attack on an RUC barracks in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh. The two men become part of republican folklore.
• 3 March - Éamon de Valera tells a crowd in Cork that a United Ireland can be achieved with time and the support of the people.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Glenavon

• Irish Cup

Winners: Glenavon 2 - 0 Derry City

[edit] Births

• 21 January - Terence Francis MacCarthy, genealogist, historian, and writer.
• 3 March - Patricia Lewsley, former Social Democratic and Labour Party politician, now Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People.
• 19 March - Patrick Joseph Kelly, Commander of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, killed by Special Air Service at Loughgall (d.1987).
• 27 April - Jim Wells, Democratic Unionist Party MLA.
• 9 May - Billy Hamilton, footballer.
• 23 May - Jimmy McShane (aka Baltimora), dancer and singer (d.1995).
• 4 August - Henry Cluney, guitarist.
• 29 August - Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde, Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, killed in armed confrontation with British troops (d.1984).
• 13 September - Mal Donaghy, footballer.
• 16 September - David McCreery, footballer.
• 30 November - Daniel McCann, volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed by SAS soldiers during Operation Flavius (d.1988).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Séanna Breathnach, former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
• Mairéad Farrell, volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed by SAS soldiers during Operation Flavius (d.1988).
• Laurence McKeown, former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, author, playwright and scriptwriter.
• Roy Walker, footballer and football manager.

[edit] Deaths

• 29 March - Joyce Cary, novelist and artist (b.1888).
• 1 August - Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer (b.1867).