1975 in Northern Ireland

← 1974 1973 1972 1975 in Northern Ireland → 1976 1977 1978
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
See also:	1975 in the United Kingdom 1975 in Ireland Other events of 1975 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events

• 31 July - Miami Showband killings: Three members of The Miami Showband, together with two paramilitaries, are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force ambush in County Down as they return home to Dublin from playing at a dance in Banbridge.

Arts and literature

• 14 May - Patrick Galvin's We Do It For Love, a satire on The Troubles, opens at the Lyric Theatre (Belfast).
• October - Stewart Parker's Spokesong opens at the Lyric (Belfast); his play I’m a Dreamer, Montreal is also written this year.
• The punk rock/new wave band which will become The Undertones is formed in Londonderry.
• William Peskett's poems The Nightowl’s Dissection are published.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

Ballinamallard United F.C. established

• Irish Cup

Winners: Coleraine 1 - 1, 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Linfield

Births

• 18 February - Keith Gillespie, international soccer player.
• 9 June - Brian Magee, boxer.
• 24 July - Gordon Cooke, cricketer.
• 27 August - Kyle McCallan, cricketer.
• 4 September - Andrew Patterson, cricketer.
• 13 October - Oisín McConville, Armagh Gaelic footballer.
• 4 November - Warren Christie, actor.

Full date unknown

• Cara Dillon, folk singer.
• Nick Laird, novelist and poet.
• Jason Maher, writer.

Deaths

• 23 February - Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (born 1889).
• 28 April - Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer, killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army (born 1927).
• 25 October - Padraig Marrinan, artist (born 1906).
• 25 November - Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (born 1895).

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