• Source: 1958 in Northern Ireland

      • Events during the year 1958 in Northern Ireland.


      Incumbents


      Governor - The Lord Wakehurst
      Prime Minister - Basil Brooke


      Events


      6 February – Jackie Blanchflower, capped 12 times for the Northern Ireland national football team, survives the Munich air disaster involving Manchester United on the return flight from a European Cup tie in Yugoslavia. Jackie (younger brother of Tottenham Hotspur's Danny Blanchflower) has won two league champions in England with United since his debut for them in 1951, but his injuries are severe and he is forced to abandon the game in the coming year.
      18 March – Taoiseach Éamon de Valera says he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.
      18 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued.
      25 October – Northern Ireland-built Short SC.1 experimental VTOL aircraft makes its first free vertical flight.


      Arts and literature


      1 July – Release of the film A Night to Remember (about the sinking of the Titanic) produced by William MacQuitty.


      Sport




      = Football

      =
      FIFA World Cup
      Group stage
      Northern Ireland 1-1 Czechoslovakia
      Northern Ireland 1-1 Argentina
      Northern Ireland 1-1 West Germany
      Group play-off stage
      Northern Ireland 2-1 Czechoslovakia AET
      Quarter final stage
      Northern Ireland 0-4 France Northern Ireland knocked out
      Irish League
      Winners: Ards
      Irish Cup
      Winners: Ballymena United 2 - 0 Linfield


      Births


      21 February – Jake Burns, punk rock singer and guitarist.
      14 March – Davy Francis, cartoonist.
      25 March – Margaret Ritchie, SDLP MLA.
      2 May – Jim Harvey, footballer and manager.
      1 August – Adrian Dunbar, actor and screenwriter.
      13 August – Feargal Sharkey, lead singer of The Undertones.
      16 August – Diane Dodds, DUP MLA, MEP.
      20 August – Nigel Dodds, DUP MP, MLA.
      20 October – Dave Finlay, professional wrestler.
      4 November – Pat Ramsey, SDLP MLA, Mayor of Derry.
      November – Bernadette Sands McKevitt, co-founder of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement.
      Brendan Cleary, poet.
      John Farry, singer-songwriter.
      Jim Gray, UDA leader in East Belfast and publican (killed 2005).
      Andre Stitt, performance artist.


      Deaths


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


      See also


      1958 in Scotland
      1958 in Wales


      References

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