1967 in Northern Ireland

← 1966 1965 1964 1967 in Northern Ireland → 1968 1969 1970
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	1967 in the United Kingdom 1967 in Ireland Other events of 1967 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events

• 29 January - Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association founded in Belfast.
• 6 September - Myrina is launched from the Musgrave Yard slipway at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, the first supertanker and (at around 192000 DWT) largest ship built in the United Kingdom up to this date.^[1]
• December - Taoiseach Jack Lynch and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill meet for talks at Stormont.

Arts and literature

• The first treasure from the Spanish Armada wreck Girona is recovered.
• The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society is founded under the chairmanship of Charles Brett.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Crusaders 3 - 1 Glentoran

Births

• 9 January - Uel Graham, former cricketer.
• 17 February - Gary Fleming, soccer player.
• 4 April - David Perry, video game developer.
• 26 April - Robbie Millar, chef and restaurateur (died 2005).
• 24 May - Deirdre Gribbin, composer.
• 2 June - Alan Rutherford, cricketer.
• 1 October - Geraldine Heaney, defenceman (ice hockey) and head coach.
• 24 October - Terence Bannon, mountaineer.
• 27 November - Andrea Catherwood, television news presenter.
• 14 December - George O'Boyle, soccer player.

Full date unknown

• Sean Connor, soccer player and manager.
• Mairtín Crawford, poet and journalist (died 2004).
• Paul Kearney, author.
• Dawn Purvis, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party and MLA.

Deaths

• 28 February - Dick Keith, footballer (born 1933).
• Sam English, soccer player (born 1908).

References