1950 in Northern Ireland

Events

*12 March - 83 people die when a plane carrying rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in Wales.
*12 May - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
*3 July - Ulster Transport Authority closes the Ballycastle Railwaycite web | title=Ballycastle Railway Station | work=Ballycastle | url=http://www.ballycastle.free-online.co.uk/info/railway/oldrailway.htm | accessdate=2007-10-27] and the Ballymena and Larne Railway. [cite book |last= Ferris |first= T |title= The Irish Narrow Gauge (Volume 2, The Ulster Lines)|publisher= Midland Publishing|year= 1993 |isbn= 1-85780-017-6 ]

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Distillery

Golf

*British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner:Vicomtesse de St Sauveur).

Births

*16 February - Peter Hain. 16th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
*12 April - Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop in The Diocese of Down and Connor.
*23 May - Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP, MLA, and Deputy First Minister.
*23 June - Martin O'Hagan, journalist (d.2001).
*9 July - Alban Maginness, SDLP MLA.
*12 August - Medbh McGuckian, poet.
*Paul Bew, Baron Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University of Belfast.
*Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer (d.2006).

Deaths

*20 July - Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (b.1880).
*James Sleator, painter (b.1889).

References