1949 in Northern Ireland

none February 2007 November 2019 December 2019 1949 Events during the year 1949 in Northern Ireland. Incumbents Governor - Earl Granville Prime Minister - Basil Brooke Events 17 April – At midnight 26 counties officially leave the British Commonwealth under terms of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland. 3 May – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Ireland Act guaranteeing the position of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom as long as a majority of its citizens want it to be. The government also recognises the existence of the Republic of Ireland. 10 May – An Oireachtas motion calls a "Protest Against Partition" because of the UK's Ireland Act provisions. 13 May – John A. Costello, Éamon de Valera, William Norton and Seán MacBride share a platform to protest the British government's attitude to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. 25 May – The Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh receive the freedom of Belfast during a visit to the city. 8 November – Street names in any language other than English are prohibited by an Amendment to a Bill passed in the Senate of Northern Ireland. Arts and literature 13 May – Family radio sitcom The McCooeys written by Joseph Tomelty is first broadcast on the BBC Home Service in Northern Ireland.McCooeys Your Place & Mine https://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/archive/A783533.shtml BBC Radio Ulster 2026-06-07 Daniel O'Neill paints Place du Tertre and The Blue Skirt. Sport Football Irish League Winners: Linfield Irish Cup Winners: Derry City 1–0 Glentoran Belfast Celtic withdrew from the Irish League at the end of a season which had seen crowd trouble at a match against Linfield five months earlier. Golf Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup. Births 14 January – Donovan McClelland, Social Democratic and Labour Party politician. 25 January – Tom Paulin, poet and critic. 23 February – Christopher Harte, cricketer. 1 March- Seamus Finnegan, playwright 17 March – Pat Rice, footballer and football coach. 18 March – Alex Higgins, snooker player. 21 March – Pat Finucane, solicitor (killed by loyalist paramilitaries 1989). 1 April – Sammy Nelson, footballer. 8 April – Graham Crothers, cricketer. 6 August – Alan Campbell, Pentecostal pastor. 1 September – Alasdair McDonnell, Social Democratic and Labour Party MP and MLA. 6 September – Iris Robinson, Democratic Unionist Party MP for Strangford and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. 18 September – Mo Mowlam, English-born 11th British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2005).Langdon Julia Julia Langdon Obituary: Mo Mowlam https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/aug/19/obituaries.northernireland The Guardian London 23 January 2018 19 August 2005 Full date unknown – David McKittrick, journalist and writer. Deaths 2 March – Cecil Lowry-Corry, 6th Earl Belmore, High Sheriff and councillor (born 1873). 2 August – William Lyle, Ulster Unionist Party member of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for Queen's University Belfast and medical practitioner (born 1871). 19 September – George Shiels, dramatist (born 1886). 6 October – Robert Wilson Lynd, writer (born 1879). See also 1949 in Scotland 1949 in Wales References Category:1949 in Europe Category:1949 by country