1958 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

• March 18 - An Taoiseach Eamon de Valera says he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Football World Cup

• Group stage

• Northern Ireland 1-1 Czechoslovakia

• Northern Ireland 1-1 Argentina

• Northern Ireland 1-1 West Germany

Northern Ireland enter group play off stage the World Cup

• Northern Ireland 2-1 Czechoslovakia AET

Northern Ireland qualify for the quarter final stage of the World Cup

• Northern Ireland 0-4 France

Northern Ireland are knocked out at the quarter final stage of the World Cup

• Irish League

Winners: Ards

• Irish Cup

Winners: Ballymena United 2 - 0 Linfield

[edit] Births

• 21 February - Jake Burns, singer and guitarist.
• 25 March - Margaret Ritchie, SDLP MLA.
• 2 May - Jim Harvey, footballer and football manager.
• 1 August - Adrian Dunbar, actor.
• 13 August - Feargal Sharkey, former lead singer of The Undertones.
• 20 August - Nigel Dodds, MP, Democratic Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• 20 October - Dave Finlay, professional wrestler.
• 4 November - Carmel O'Boyle, SDLP councillor.
• 4 November - Pat Ramsey, SDLP MLA and former Mayor of Derry.
• November - Bernadette Sands McKevitt, former leading member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement.
• Brendan Cleary, poet.
• Davy Francis, cartoonist.
• Jim Gray, former Ulster Defence Association leader in East Belfast (d.2005).
• Andre Stitt, performance artist.

[edit] Deaths

• 24 August - Paul Henry, artist (b.1876).
• 2 December - Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (b.1892).