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      Events during the year 1955 in Northern Ireland.


      Incumbents


      Governor - The Lord Wakehurst
      Prime Minister - Basil Brooke


      Events


      21 July – The BBC brings into service its Divis transmitter, its first permanent facility serving Northern Ireland, marking the launch of a television service for Northern Ireland; the 35 kW transmissions can also be readily received in much of the Republic of Ireland.


      Arts and literature


      22 March – A fire destroys much of the original rococo interior of Florence Court.
      Brian Moore's novel Judith Hearne is published.


      Sport




      = Football

      =
      Irish League
      Winners: Linfield
      Irish Cup
      Winners: Dundela 3 - 0 Glenavon


      Births


      11 January – Brian Gregory, footballer.
      20 January – Joe Doherty, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
      25 February – Davy Hyland, Sinn Féin, later independent, MLA.
      28 March – John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice, Alliance Party politician and Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1998–2004.
      2 April – Michael Stone, Ulster loyalist paramilitary.
      30 April – BJ Hogg, actor (died 2020).
      23 June – Ken Reid, television journalist.
      6 July – Michael Boyd, theatre director (died 2023).
      1 August – Adrian Logan, television sports presenter and reporter.
      27 September
      Gerry Convery, Canadian darts player.
      Felix Healy, footballer and football manager.
      30 September – Frankie Kennedy, traditional flute and tin whistle player and co-founder of Altan (died 1994).
      16 October – Kieran Doherty, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (died 1981 on hunger strike).
      7 December – John McClelland, footballer.
      Undated
      Bríd Brennan, actress.
      Billy Hutchinson, Progressive Unionist Party leader.
      Paddy McKillen, property investor.


      Deaths


      22 January – Moira O'Neill, poet (born 1864).
      11 April – Margaret McCoubrey, suffragette and pacifist (born 1880 in Scotland).
      14 May – Robert Quigg, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme (born 1885).
      18 July – Billy McCandless, footballer and football manager (born 1893).
      14 December – Paddy Mayne, international rugby union footballer and decorated soldier (born 1915).
      Undated – Unsinkable Sam, ship's cat (born before 1941 in Germany).


      See also


      1955 in Scotland
      1955 in Wales


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