1950 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1950 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
- 12 March – Llandow air disaster: 83 people die when a plane carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Belfast crashes in South Wales.{{cite book|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales|year=2008|page=816|isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6|last1=Gymreig|first1=Academi}}
- 12 May – Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
- 3 July – Ulster Transport Authority closes the Ballycastle Railway{{cite web|title=Ballycastle Railway Station|work=Ballycastle|url=http://www.ballycastle.info/info/railway/oldrailway.htm|access-date=2007-10-27}} and the Ballymena and Larne Railway.{{cite book|last=Ferris|first= T.|title=The Irish Narrow Gauge. Volume 2, The Ulster Lines|publisher=Midland Publishing|year=1993|isbn=1-85780-017-6}}
Arts and literature
- September - Poet Philip Larkin takes up a 5-year post as sub-librarian at Queen's University Belfast.
Sport
This was the only year where Ireland didn't participate at the Commonwealth Games. (British Empire Games)
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- British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club (winner:Vicomtesse de St Sauveur).
Births
- 22 January – Paul Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University of Belfast.
- 16 February – Peter Hain, 16th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
- 12 April – Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor.
- 23 May – Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin MP, MLA and Deputy First Minister (died 2017).
- 23 June – Martin O'Hagan, journalist (died 2001).
- 9 July – Alban Maginness, SDLP MLA.
- 12 August – Medbh McGuckian, poet.
- 28 September – Brian Keenan, writer and hostage in Lebanon.
- 16 December – Dolours Price, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and political activist (died 2013).
- Denis Donaldson, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, member of Sinn Féin, exposed in 2005 as an informer (died 2006).
Deaths
- 20 July – Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (born 1880).
- James Sleator, painter (born 1889).