Events during the year 1950 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

* Governor - Earl Granville * Prime Minister - Basil Brooke

Events

*12 March – Llandow air disaster: 83 people die when a plane carrying

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. *12 May – Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the

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to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad. *3 July – Ulster Transport Authority closes the

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Arts and literature

* September - Poet Philip Larkin takes up a 5-year post as sub-librarian at

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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

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Golf

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

Births

*22 January – Paul Bew, professor of Irish politics at

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. *16 February – Peter Hain, 16th

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. *12 April – Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor. *23 May – Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP, MLA and Deputy First Minister (died

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). *23 June –

Martin O'Hagan Owen Martin O'Hagan (23 June 1950 – 28 September 2001) was an Irish investigative journalist from Lurgan, Northern Ireland. After leaving the Official Irish Republican Army (Official IRA) and serving time in prison, he began a 20-year journali ...

, journalist (died

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). *9 July – Alban Maginness, SDLP MLA. *12 August – Medbh McGuckian, poet. *28 September – Brian Keenan, writer and hostage in Lebanon. *16 December – Dolours Price, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and political activist (died

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). * Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer (died

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Deaths

*20 July – Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (born

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). * James Sleator, painter (born

1889 Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the ...

References

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