1977 in Northern Ireland
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Incumbents
Events
- The overt British Army lead in security policy is scaled back in favour of police primacy during the year.[1]
- 29 May - A massive peace rally takes place in Belfast organized by Betty Williams, Mairéad Corrigan and Ciarán McKeown.
- May - Shankill Butchers are arrested.[2]
- 10 August - Elizabeth II visits Northern Ireland as part of her Silver Jubilee celebrations under tight security.
- September - Rev. Ian Paisley launches the Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign to oppose the decriminalisation of homosexuality.[3]
- 10 October - The Peace Movement founders, Mairéad Corrigan and Betty Williams win the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Sport
Football
- Winners: Glentoran
Golf
- Moyola Park Golf Club is founded.
Births
- 4 January - Tim Wheeler, singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 7 January - Tomm Moore, twice Oscar nominated animator and film maker.
- 10 March- Colin Murray, Radio DJ.
- 16 July - Bryan Budd, Parachute Regiment Corporal killed on active service in Afghanistan and posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (died 2006).
- 10 August - Danny Griffin, footballer.
- 23 August - Davy Larmour, footballer.
- 11 September - Enda Muldoon, Gaelic footballer.
- 15 October - Paul McKee, sprint athlete.
- 6 December - Paul McVeigh, footballer.
- 16 December - Darren Fitzgerald, footballer.
Deaths
- 3 March - Brian Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionist Party MP (born 1921).
- 17 April - William Conway, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh (born 1913).
- 24 April - Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (born 1909).
- 2 June - Stephen Boyd, actor (born 1931).
- 1 August - Bill Loughery, cricketer (born 1907).
References
- ↑ Edwards, Aaron (2011). The Northern Ireland Troubles: Operation Banner 1969-2007. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84908-525-0.
- ↑ "A Chronology of the Conflict - 1979". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 29 January 2010.
- ↑ "Paisley campaigns to 'save Ulster from Sodomy'". The Irish Times. 20 October 1977. p. 7. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
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