1974 in Northern Ireland

1974 in Northern Ireland

Events

*2 January - First day in office of the Northern Ireland Executive.
*15 February - A 600lb bomb explodes in Dungannon.
*28 February - United Kingdom general election
*5 March - Merlyn Rees becomes Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [http://www.larkspirit.com/history/chronology.html Larkspirit Irish History] ] .
*14 May - Northern Ireland grinds to a halt as the Ulster Workers' Council calls a strike following the defeat of an anti-Sunningdale Agreement motion.
*21 May - In Northern Ireland the Ulster Workers' Council Strike comes to an end.
*28 May - The five-month old Northern Ireland Executive collapses.
*10 October - The second United Kingdom general election of the year.
*15 October - Republican prisoners attack guards and set fire to huts in Long Kesh.
*16 October - Republican women prisoners in Armagh prison hold governor and three guards hostage.
*7 November - An IRA bomb explodes at the Kings Arms, Woolwich.
*27 November - The Prevention of Terrorism Act is passed in the United Kingdom.
*8 December - Irish Republican Socialist Party formed.
*15 December - Price sisters transferred to an English jail (following hungerstrike which had ended in June).
*22 December - second cease-fire between IRA and British (lasts until about April 1975).
*Samson crane is completed at Harland and Wolff shipyard.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Coleraine

*Irish Cup::Winners: Ards 2 - 1 Ballymena United

Births

*18 January - Steve Lomas, footballer.
*7 February - Jonathan Bell, rugby player.
*23 February - Neil Sinclair, boxer.
*28 April - Jeremy Davidson, rugby player.
*4 May - Tony McCoy, jockey.
*11 May - Peter Gillespie, cricketer.
*5 June - Claire McCollum, television presenter and journalist.
*6 November - Sean Hargan, footballer.
*28 November - Gary Neely, cricketer.
*17 December - Ryan Eagleson, former cricketer.

Full date unknown

*Dan Donnelly, singer-songwriter.
*Leontia Flynn, poet.
*Darragh Morgan, musician.

Deaths

*9 March - Daniel O'Neill, artist (b.1920).
*5 July - James Young, comedian (b.1918).

References


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