1950 in Northern Ireland
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
This was the only year where Ireland didn't participate at the Commonwealth Games. (British Empire Games)
Football
- Winners: Linfield
- Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Distillery
Golf
Births
- 16 February - Peter Hain. 16th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
- 12 April - Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop in The Diocese of Down and Connor.
- 23 May - Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP, MLA, and Deputy First Minister.
- 23 June - Martin O'Hagan, journalist (died 2001).
- 9 July - Alban Maginness, SDLP MLA.
- 12 August - Medbh McGuckian, poet.
- Paul Bew, Baron Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University of Belfast.
- Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer (died 2006).
- Brian Keenan, writer and hostage in Lebanon.
Deaths
References
- ↑ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. 2008. p. 816. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- ↑ "Ballycastle Railway Station". Ballycastle. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ↑ Ferris, T (1993). The Irish Narrow Gauge (Volume 2, The Ulster Lines). Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-017-6.