- 1975 in Northern Ireland
Events
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31 July - Three members of the "Miami Showband" are killed in aUlster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack as they return from a dance inCounty Down . (See:Miami Showband killings )Arts and literature
port
Football
*Irish League::Winners: Linfield
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Irish Cup ::Winners: Coleraine 1 - 1, 0 - 0, 1 - 0 LinfieldBirths
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18 February -Keith Gillespie , international soccer player.
*9 June -Brian Magee , boxer.
*24 July -Gordon Cooke , cricketer.
*27 August -Kyle McCallan , cricketer.
*4 September -Andrew Patterson , cricketer.
*13 October -Oisín McConville , ArmaghGaelic football er.
*4 November -Warren Christie , actor.Full date unknown
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Cara Dillon , folksinger .
*Nick Laird , novelist and poet.
*Jason Maher , writer.Deaths
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23 February -Ernest Blythe , writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (b.1889).
*28 April -Billy McMillen ,Official Irish Republican Army officer, killed in feud withIrish National Liberation Army (b.1927).
*25 October -Padraig Marrinan , artist (b.1906).
*25 November -Moyna Macgill , stage and film actress, mother ofAngela Lansbury (b.1895).References
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