• Source: 1975 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1975 in Northern Ireland.




Incumbents


Secretary of State - Merlyn Rees




Events


31 July – Miami Showband killings: Three members of The Miami Showband, together with two paramilitaries, are killed in an Ulster Volunteer Force ambush in County Down as they return home to Dublin from playing at a dance in Banbridge.




Arts and literature


14 May – Patrick Galvin's We Do It For Love, a satire on The Troubles, opens at the Lyric Theatre (Belfast).
October – Stewart Parker's Spokesong opens at the Lyric (Belfast); his play I’m a Dreamer, Montreal is also written this year.
The punk rock/new wave band which will become The Undertones is formed in Derry.
William Peskett's poems The Nightowl's Dissection are published.




Sport






= Football

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Irish League
Winners: Linfield
Ballinamallard United F.C. established
Irish Cup
Winners: Coleraine 1 – 1, 0 – 0, 1 – 0 Linfield




Births


18 February – Keith Gillespie, international soccer player.
9 June – Brian Magee, boxer.
21 July - Cara Dillon, folk singer
24 July – Gordon Cooke, cricketer.
27 August – Kyle McCallan, cricketer.
4 September – Andrew Patterson, cricketer.
13 October – Oisín McConville, Armagh Gaelic footballer.
4 November – Warren Christie, actor.




= Full date unknown

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Nick Laird, novelist and poet.




Deaths


23 February – Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (born 1889).
28 April – Billy McMillen, Official Irish Republican Army officer, killed in feud with Irish National Liberation Army (born 1927).
25 October – Padraig Marrinan, artist (born 1906).
25 November – Moyna Macgill, stage and film actress, mother of Angela Lansbury (born 1895).




See also


1975 in Scotland
1975 in Wales




References

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• Konflik Irlandia Utara
• Hugh Doherty (republikan Irlandia)
• Mahkamah Eropa
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• Miss World 2024
• Daftar perang
• Jawatan Kesehatan Nasional
• High-Rise (film)
• 1975 in Northern Ireland
• 1975 in Ireland
• The Troubles
• Disappeared (Northern Ireland)
• October 1975 Northern Ireland attacks
• Elections in Northern Ireland
• Local government in Northern Ireland
• Northern Ireland national football team
• Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
• Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)