1981 in Northern Ireland
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[edit] Events
- 16 January- Northern Ireland civil rights campaigner and former Westminster MP, Bernadette McAliskey is shot and injured at her home in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Loyalist terrorists suspected.[1]
- 1 March - Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Long Kesh prison in Belfast.
- 10 April - Bobby Sands is elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
- 5 May - Bobby Sands dies on the 66th day of his hunger strike in the Maze Prison in Belfast.
- 12 May - Francis Hughes, previously the most wanted man in the North, dies on the 59th day of his hunger strike in Belfast (joined hungerstrike March 15).
- 12 May - British Army sniper kills INLA member Emmanuel McClarnon from the top of Divis Tower, on the night Francis Hughes died on hunger strike.[2]
- 21 May - Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara both die on the 61st day of their hunger strike in the Maze Prison (joined hungerstrike March 22).
- 8 July - IRA hunger striker Joe McDonnell dies (joined hungerstrike May 9).
- 13 July - Hunger striket Martin Hurson dies (joined hungerstrike May 29).
- 1 August - Hunger striker Kevin Lynch dies (joined hungerstrike May 23).
- 2 August - Kieran Doherty, TD for Cavan-Monaghan, dies on the 73rd day of his hunger strike (joined hungerstrike May 22).
- 8 August - Hunger striker Thomas McElwee dies (joined hungerstrike June 8).
- 20 August - Hunger striker Micky Devine dies (joined hungerstrike June 22).
- 3 October - Hunger strike officially ends.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
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- Winners: Glentoran
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- Winners: Ballymena United 1 - 0 Glenavon
[edit] Motorcycling
- Robert Dunlop enters his first professional race, where he was fully sponsored, at Aghadowey.
[edit] Births
- 17 January - Warren Feeney, international soccer player.
- 20 January - Christine Bleakley, television presenter.
- 20 January - Nathan Connolly, musician with Snow Patrol.
- 27 March - Terry McFlynn, soccer player.
- 31 March - Gerard McCarthy, actor.
- 23 April - Jenny McDonough, hockey player.
- 29 April - George McCartney, soccer player.
- 17 July - Andy Maxwell, rugby player.
- 10 September - Alan Blayney, soccer player.
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- Brian Philip Davis, filmmaker.
[edit] Deaths
- 21 January - Norman Stronge, Ulster Unionist Party politician and Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for 23 years (b.1894).
- 5 May - Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and MP who died on hunger strike (b.1954).
- 8 July - Joe McDonnell, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who died in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b.1951).
- 2 August - Kieran Doherty, Irish republican hunger striker and volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (b.1955).
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- Jackie Vernon, footballer (b.1918).
