1945 in Northern Ireland

Events

*8 May - V-E Day is celebrated throughout the UK.
*16 May - Éamon de Valera replies in a radio broadcast to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.
*26 July - United Kingdom general election, 1945.
*15 August- V-J Day is celebrated in the UK.
*21 August - Two nationalist MPs take the Oath of Allegiance and enter the Westminster parliament.
*15 October - Professor Eoin MacNeill dies in Dublin aged 77. He was a founder-member of the Gaelic League and the Irish Volunteers.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Linfield 4 - 2 Glentoran

Births

*29 January - Jim Nicholson, Unionist politician and MEP for Northern Ireland.
*12 June - Pat Jennings, former international soccer player.
*4 July - David McWilliams, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (d.2002).
*16 August - Allan Bresland, DUP Northern Ireland Assembly member for West Tyrone.
*25 August - Sammy Duddy, member of the Ulster Political Research Group (d.2007).
*31 August - Van Morrison, singer and songwriter.
*15 September - Dave Clements, former soccer player and manager.
*21 September - Shaw Clifton, General of The Salvation Army.
*31 October - Bobbie Hanvey, photographer and radio personality.
*17 November - Damien Magee, racing driver.
*5 December - Evin Crowley, actress.

Full date unknown

*Brendan Hamill, poet and writer.
*Martin Meehan, Sinn Féin politician and former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (d.2007).
*Graham Reid, playwright.
*James A. Sharkey, historian and Irish diplomat.

Deaths

*13 October - Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (b.1861).
*15 October - Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (b.1867).
*20 December - John M. Lyle, architect in Canada (b.1872).