1958 in Northern Ireland

Events

*March 18 - An Taoiseach Eamon de Valera says he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.

Arts and literature

port

Football

* Football World Cup

:*Group stage::*Northern Ireland 1-1 Czechoslovakia

::*Northern Ireland 1-1 Argentina

::*Northern Ireland 1-1 West Germany

:::Northern Ireland enter group play off stage the World Cup

::*Northern Ireland 2-1 Czechoslovakia AET

:::Northern Ireland qualify for the quarter final stage of the World Cup

::*Northern Ireland 0-4 France

:::Northern Ireland are knocked out at the quarter final stage of the World Cup

*Irish League::Winners: Ards

*Irish Cup::Winners: Ballymena United 2 - 0 Linfield

Births

*21 February - Jake Burns, singer and guitarist.
*25 March - Margaret Ritchie, SDLP MLA.
*2 May - Jim Harvey, footballer and football manager.
*1 August - Adrian Dunbar, actor.
*13 August - Feargal Sharkey, former lead singer of The Undertones.
*20 August - Nigel Dodds, MP, Democratic Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
*20 October - Dave Finlay, professional wrestler.
*4 November - Carmel O'Boyle, SDLP councillor.
*4 November - Pat Ramsey, SDLP MLA and former Mayor of Derry.
*November - Bernadette Sands McKevitt, former leading member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement.
*Brendan Cleary, poet.
*Davy Francis, cartoonist.
*Jim Gray, former Ulster Defence Association leader in East Belfast (d.2005).
*Andre Stitt, performance artist.

Deaths

*24 August - Paul Henry, artist (b.1876).
*2 December - Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (b.1892).