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1945 in Northern Ireland
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1945
in
Northern Ireland
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1947
1948
1949
1950
Decades:
1920s • 1930s •
1940s
• 1950s • 1960s
Centuries:
20th • 21st
See also:
1945 in the United Kingdom
1945 in Ireland
Other events of 1945
List of years in Northern Ireland
Contents
1
Events
2
Arts and literature
3
Sport
3.1
Football
4
Births
4.1
Full date unknown
5
Deaths
Events
8 May -
V-E Day
is celebrated throughout the UK.
16 May -
Éamon de Valera
replies in a radio broadcast to
Winston Churchill
's criticism of Irish neutrality.
26 July -
United Kingdom general election, 1945
.
15 August-
V-J Day
is celebrated in the UK.
21 August - Two nationalist
MPs
take the Oath of Allegiance and enter the
Westminster
parliament.
15 October - Professor
Eoin MacNeill
dies in
Dublin
aged 77. He was a founder-member of the
Gaelic League
and the
Irish Volunteers
.
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
Irish League
Winners:
Linfield
Irish Cup
Winners:
Linfield
4 - 2
Glentoran
Births
29 January -
Jim Nicholson
, Unionist politician and
MEP
for
Northern Ireland
.
12 June -
Pat Jennings
, former international soccer player.
4 July -
David McWilliams
,
singer
,
songwriter
, and
guitarist
(d.
2002
).
16 August -
Allan Bresland
,
DUP
Northern Ireland Assembly
member for
West Tyrone
.
25 August -
Sammy Duddy
, member of the
Ulster Political Research Group
(d.
2007
).
31 August -
Van Morrison
,
singer
and
songwriter
.
15 September -
Dave Clements
, former soccer player and manager.
21 September -
Shaw Clifton
,
General
of
The Salvation Army
.
31 October -
Bobbie Hanvey
, photographer and radio personality.
17 November -
Damien Magee
, racing driver.
5 December -
Evin Crowley
, actress.
Full date unknown
Brendan Hamill
, poet and writer.
Martin Meehan
,
Sinn Féin
politician and former
volunteer
in the
Provisional Irish Republican Army
(d.
2007
).
Graham Reid
, playwright.
James A. Sharkey
, historian and Irish diplomat.
Deaths
13 October -
Joseph MacRory
,
Cardinal
,
Archbishop of Armagh
and
Primate of All Ireland
(b.
1861
).
15 October -
Eoin MacNeill
, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (b.
1867
).
20 December -
John M. Lyle
, architect in
Canada
(b.
1872
).