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1953 in Northern Ireland
Summary
Events during the year
1953 in Northern Ireland
.
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1952
1951
1950
1953
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Decades:
1930s
1940s
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1960s
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See also:
1953 in the United Kingdom
1953 in Ireland
Other events of 1953
List of years in Northern Ireland
Incumbents
edit
Governor
-
The Lord Wakehurst
Prime Minister
-
Basil Brooke
Events
edit
The Flag of the
Government of Northern Ireland
is first used, to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
31 January – The car ferry
MV
Princess Victoria
sailing from
Stranraer
,
Scotland
to
Larne
,
Northern Ireland
, sinks in the
Irish Sea
killing 133 people on board. The dead include Northern Ireland Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Major
Maynard Sinclair
and Sir
Walter Smiles
, the
Ulster Unionist
MP for
North Down
.
16 March –
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.
asks the American Congress to support a
United Ireland
.
1 May – The
BBC
brings into service the first
television transmitter
in Northern Ireland, at
Glencairn (Belfast)
, to improve coverage prior to broadcast of the
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
a month later.
1–3 July - First visit of
Elizabeth II
to Northern Ireland following her accession.
[1]
2 August –
Murlough Bay
in the
Antrim
Glens is chosen as the future grave of
Roger Casement
.
Taoiseach
Éamon de Valera
calls for the return of his remains.
Saor Uladh
, a criminal
Republican
paramilitary organisation, is formed in
County Tyrone
by
Liam Kelly
(who had been expelled from the
Irish Republican Army
in
1951
) and
Phil O'Donnell
.
[2]
Arts and literature
edit
Sport
edit
Football
edit
Irish League
Winners:
Glentoran
Irish Cup
Winners:
Linfield
5 - 0
Coleraine
Gaelic Games
edit
June -
Casement Park
in
Belfast
is opened, home to the
Antrim
football
and
hurling
teams.
Golf
edit
Fred Daly
plays in the
Ryder Cup
.
Motorcycling
edit
Ulster Grand Prix
moves to current
Dundrod
circuit.
Births
edit
January to June
edit
23 January –
Alister McGrath
,
Christian theologian
, currently
Professor
of
Historical Theology
at the
University of Oxford
.
9 February –
Ciarán Hinds
, actor.
9 February –
George Ennis
,
UK Unionist Party
MLA
.
15 February –
Gregory Campbell
,
Democratic Unionist Party
MP
for
East Londonderry
.
2 April –
Jim Allister
,
Democratic Unionist Party
MEP
and a
QC
.
4 April –
Sammy Wilson
,
Democratic Unionist Party
MP
for
East Antrim
, member of the
Northern Ireland Assembly
.
5 April –
Gerry Kelly
,
Sinn Féin
MLA
for
Belfast North
.
6 June – Maggie Shevlin, actress.
July to December
edit
21 July –
David Ervine
, leader of the
Progressive Unionist Party
(died
2007
).
6 August –
Jamie Delargy
, television journalist.
21 October –
Peter Mandelson
, 12th
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
and
European Commissioner
.
4 December –
Paul Clark
, television presenter and journalist.
Full date unknown
edit
Gordy Blair
,
bass guitarist
.
Danny Morrison
, Irish republican and writer.
Gearóid Ó hEára,
Sinn Féin
politician and former
Mayor of Derry
.
David Park, novelist.
Deaths
edit
12 September –
James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn
,
Unionist
politician and first
Governor of Northern Ireland
(born
1869
).
Alice Milligan
, nationalist and poet (born
1865
).
See also
edit
1953 in Scotland
1953 in Wales
References
edit
^
"Queen Elizabeth II in Northern Ireland".
History
.
BBC
. Retrieved
22 June
2012
.
^
Feeney, Brian (2002).
Sinn Féin: A Hundred Turbulent Years
. New York: O'Brien Press. p. 203.
ISBN
978-0-86278-695-3
.