1950 in Northern Ireland

← 1949 1948 1947 1950 in Northern Ireland → 1951 1952 1953
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	1950 in the United Kingdom 1950 in Ireland Other events of 1950 List of years in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Monarch - George VI

Events

• 12 March - Llandow air disaster: 83 people die when a plane carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in South Wales.^[1]
• 12 May - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
• 3 July - Ulster Transport Authority closes the Ballycastle Railway^[2] and the Ballymena and Larne Railway.^[3]

Arts and literature

• September - Poet Philip Larkin takes up a 5-year post as sub-librarian at Queen's University Belfast.

Sport

This was the only year where Ireland didn't participate at the Commonwealth Games. (British Empire Games)

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Distillery

Golf

• British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner:Vicomtesse de St Sauveur).

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 (died 2017).
• 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

• 20 July - Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (born 1880).
• James Sleator, painter (born 1889).

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