• Source: 1952 in Northern Ireland

      • Events during the year 1952 in Northern Ireland.


      Incumbents


      Governor - Earl Granville (until 1 December), The Lord Wakehurst (from 1 December)
      Prime Minister - Basil Brooke


      Events


      August - Official opening of Binnian Tunnel (2.5 miles (4.0 km)), feeding water to the Silent Valley Reservoir under the Mourne Mountains.
      12 November – Murder of Patricia Curran, 19-year-old daughter of Sir Lancelot Curran. Iain Hay Gordon was found guilty of her murder, but the sentence was overturned in 2000.


      Arts and literature


      Daniel O'Neill paints Birth.


      Sport




      = Football

      =
      Irish League
      Winners: Glenavon
      Irish Cup
      Winners: Ards 1 - 0 Glentoran


      Births


      8 January – Alex Maskey, first Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor and MLA.
      18 January – Derek Spence, footballer.
      25 February – Joey Dunlop, motorcycle racer (died 2000).
      1 March – Martin O'Neill, international footballer and football manager.
      2 March – Lenny Murphy, loyalist paramilitary and leader of the Shankill Butchers (died 1982).
      4 April – Gary Moore, guitarist.
      7 June – Liam Neeson, actor.
      25 June – Alan Green, sports broadcaster.
      17 October – Graham Forsythe, artist.
      20 December – Terry George, screenwriter and director.


      = Full date unknown

      =
      Gerald Dawe, writer and poet.

      John Linehan, comedian (May McFettridge).
      Tommy McKearney, former hunger striker and member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, now a journalist.
      William Peskett, poet.


      Deaths


      Louisa Watson Peat, writer and lecturer (born 1883)


      See also


      1952 in Scotland
      1952 in Wales


      References

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