1957 in Northern Ireland

1957 in Northern Ireland

Events

*1 January - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in an IRA attack on an RUC barracks in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh. The two men become part of republican folklore.
*3 March - Éamon de Valera tells a crowd in Cork that a United Ireland can be achieved with time and the support of the people.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Glenavon

*Irish Cup::Winners: Glenavon 2 - 0 Derry City

Births

*21 January - Terence Francis MacCarthy, genealogist, historian, and writer.
*3 March - Patricia Lewsley, former Social Democratic and Labour Party politician, now Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People.
*19 March - Patrick Joseph Kelly, Commander of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, killed by Special Air Service at Loughgall (d.1987).
*27 April - Jim Wells, Democratic Unionist Party MLA.
*9 May - Billy Hamilton, footballer.
*23 May - Jimmy McShane (aka Baltimora), dancer and singer (d.1995).
*4 August - Henry Cluney, guitarist.
*29 August - Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde, Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, killed in armed confrontation with British troops (d.1984).
*13 September - Mal Donaghy, footballer.
*16 September - David McCreery, footballer.
*30 November - Daniel McCann, volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed by SAS soldiers during Operation Flavius (d.1988).

Full date unknown

*Séanna Breathnach, former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
*Mairéad Farrell, volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed by SAS soldiers during Operation Flavius (d.1988).
*Laurence McKeown, former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, author, playwright and scriptwriter.
*Roy Walker, footballer and football manager.

Deaths

*29 March - Joyce Cary, novelist and artist (b.1888).
*1 August - Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer (b.1867).


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