1950 in Northern Ireland

none September 2020 February 2012 1950 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 Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in South Wales.The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales 2008 816 978-0-7083-1953-6 Gymreig Academi 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 RailwayBallycastle Railway Station Ballycastle http://www.ballycastle.info/info/railway/oldrailway.htm 2007-10-27 27 October 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141027164706/http://www.ballycastle.info/info/railway/oldrailway.htm dead and the Ballymena and Larne Railway.Ferris T. The Irish Narrow Gauge. Volume 2, The Ulster Lines Midland Publishing 1993 1-85780-017-6 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 22 January – Paul Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University of Belfast. 16 February – Peter Hain, 16th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. 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 2017). 23 June – Martin O'Hagan, journalist (died 2001). 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 2013). Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer (died 2006). Deaths 20 July – Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (born 1880). James Sleator, painter (born 1889). See also 1950 in Scotland 1950 in Wales References Category:1950 in Europe Category:1950 by country