1977 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1977 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 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.
Arts and literature
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Sport
[edit]Football
[edit]- Winners: Glentoran
Golf
[edit]- Moyola Park Golf Club is founded.
Births
[edit]- 4 January - Tim Wheeler, singer-songwriter and guitarist.
- 7 January - Tomm Moore, twice Oscar nominated animator and film maker.
- 10 January - Michelle O'Neill, Sinn Féin leader.
- 10 March - Colin Murray, radio DJ.
- 16 July - Bryan Budd, Parachute Regiment Corporal, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (killed on active service 2006 in Afghanistan).
- 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
[edit]- 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).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.