- 1976 in Northern Ireland
Events
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January 5 -Kingsmill massacre : tenProtestant men killed in South Armagh,Northern Ireland , by members of theProvisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), using the cover name "South Armagh Republican Action Force".
*March 1 -Merlyn Rees endsSpecial Category Status for those sentenced for crimes relating to the civil violence inNorthern Ireland .
*March 4 - TheNorthern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved inNorthern Ireland resulting indirect rule ofNorthern Ireland fromLondon via theBritish parliament .
*March 31 - A large quantity of money is stolen from a CIEtrain atSallins ,County Kildare , the "Sallins Train Robbery ".
*July 15 - Four prisoners escape when bombs explode in the Special Criminal Court,Dublin .
*July 21 -Christopher Ewart-Biggs , UK ambassador, and a civil servant,Judith Cooke , are killed by a landmine at Sandyford, Co. Dublin.
*August 14 - 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace inNorthern Ireland .
*September 14 -Ciaran Nugent is first IRA man to be admitted to the Maze Prison without Special Category Status. He becomes the first blanketman [ [http://www.larkspirit.com/history/chronology.html Larkspirit Irish History] ] .
* Betty Williams andMairead Corrigan win theNobel Peace Prize . [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1976/ The Nobel Peace Prize 1976] ]Arts and literature
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Football
*Irish League::Winners: Crusaders
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Irish Cup ::Winners:Carrick Rangers 2 - 1 LinfieldBirths
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25 March -Francis Bellew , Gaelic footballer.
*30 March -Mark McClelland , musician, formerly withSnow Patrol .
*24 May -Maclean Stewart , actor.
*3 June -Paul Berry , formerDemocratic Unionist Party MLA.
*15 June -Gary Lightbody , musician withSnow Patrol .
*18 August -Damaen Kelly , boxer.
*25 October - Steve Jones, footballer.
*29 October -Stephen Craigan , footballer.
*Ian McCrea ,Democratic Unionist Party MLA.Deaths
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4 May -Hugh Delargy , British Labour Party politician and MP (b.1908).
*29 July -Knox Cunningham , barrister, businessman and Ulster Unionist politician (b.1909).
*7 October - Michael O'Neill, nationalist politician and MP (b.1909).
*4 December -W. F. McCoy , Ulster Unionist member of theParliament of Northern Ireland (b.1886).References
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