1987 in Northern Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Motorcycling 4 Births 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown

Events

• 8 May - The SAS kills 8 IRA members and a civilian in an ambush at Loughgall.
• 8 November - 11 civilians are killed in an IRA explosion during a Remembrance Day service in Enniskillen. (See: Remembrance Day Bombing)

Arts and literature

• Ciarán Carson's The Irish for No poetry collection is published and wins the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Glentoran 1 - 0 Larne

Motorcycling

• Robert Dunlop wins the 125cc, 350cc and 1000cc races at the Cookstown 100 to be named “Man of the Meeting”.

Births

• 2 January - Daryl Fordyce, soccer player.
• 2 March - Jonathan Rea, motorcycle racer.
• 29 August - Tony Kane, soccer player.
• 16 September - Kyle Lafferty, international soccer player.
• 17 September - Greg Thompson, cricketer.
• 6 October - Michael O'Connor, soccer player.
• 25 October - Darron Gibson, soccer player.

Deaths

• 27 April - Maurice Gibson, judge (b.1913).
• 7 May - Colin Blakely, actor (b.1930).
• 8 May - Patrick Joseph Kelly, Commander of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, killed by Special Air Service at Loughgall (b.1957).
• 22 June - John Hewitt, poet (b.1907).
• 3 December - George Seawright, Loyalist politician.
• 22 December - John McMichael, leading Ulster Defence Association member, killed in car bomb attack.

Full date unknown

• Jimmy Warnock, boxer (b.1912).