1975 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1975 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Football
[edit]- Winners: Linfield
- Ballinamallard United F.C. established
Births
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Nick Laird, novelist and poet.
Deaths
[edit]- 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).