1947 in Northern Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 GAA 3.3 Golf 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths

Events

• 11 August - The Enterprise Express service commences from Belfast to Dublin.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Belfast Celtic 1 - 0 Glentoran

GAA

• Cavan defeat Antrim 3-04 to 1-06 to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
• Cavan subsequently defeat Kerry 2-11 to 2-07 in New York to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Golf

• Fred Daly wins The Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake.
• Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup.

Births

• 23 February - Ken Goodall, international rugby player (d.2006).
• 5 March - Clodagh Rodgers, singer.
• 24 March - John Dallat, Social Democratic and Labour Party politician.
• 17 April - Linda Martin, singer.
• 23 April - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Member of UK Parliament.
• 8 May - Dr John Reid, 13th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Home Secretary.
• 18 May - Eileen Pollock, actress.
• 19 May - Paul Brady, singer/songwriter.
• 12 August - Seamus Close, former Alliance Party MLA.
• 3 September - Eric Bell, guitarist.
• 26 October - Sir Reg Empey, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• 5 December - Seán Quinn, businessman.

Full date unknown

• Paul Haller, Soto Zen Buddhist teacher and Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center.
• Joe McCann, Official Irish Republican Army volunteer killed by British soldiers (d.1972).
• Eugene McMenamin, SDLP MLA
• Frank Ormsby, poet
• Eric Wrixon, musician

Deaths

• 2 January - Tom Ross, cricketer (b.1872)
• 4 January - Forrest Reid, novelist and literary critic (b.1875)
• 25 April - Richard Rowley, poet and writer (b.1877).