1977 in Northern Ireland

Events

*May 29 - A massive peace rally takes place in Belfast organized by Betty Williams, Mairéad Corrigan and Ciarán McKeown.
*September - Rev Ian Paisley launches the Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign to oppose the decriminalisation of homosexuality. [cite news |url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/archive/1977/1020/Pg007.html#Ar00702:2070E82811412471B426D1D119A13A21D19418C1921BC1AF2B51B42DD1D11E12E12012F627056B29258024413D3191962EA1B532C1D129F0EA3491442771B42AC1D11893A61B33BB |title=Paisley campaigns to 'save Ulster from Sodomy' |author= |work=The Irish Times |page=7 |date=20 October 1977 |accessdate=2008-05-07]
*October 10 - The Peace Movement founders, Mairéad Corrigan and Betty Williams win the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Glentoran

*Irish Cup::Winners: Coleraine 4 - 1 Linfield

Golf

*Moyola Park Golf Club is founded.

Births

*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 (d.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 (b.1921).
*17 April - William Cardinal Conway, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh (b.1913).
*24 April - Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (b.1909).
*2 June - Stephen Boyd, actor (b.1931).
*1 August - Bill Loughery, cricketer (b.1907).

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