1954 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1954 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

6 April – Flags and Emblems (Display) Act (Northern Ireland) is introduced, making it illegal to interfere with the display of a Union Flag and giving the Royal Ulster Constabulary the right to remove any other flag or emblem if it is thought that it might lead to a breach of peace.{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events|work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|accessdate=28 January 2010}}
12 June – An Irish Republican Army unit carries out a successful arms raid on Gough Barracks in Armagh signalling the renewal of IRA activity following a long hiatus.
17 August – Ocean liner SS Southern Cross is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.{{Cite web|title=Southern Cross – TGOL|url=http://thegreatoceanliners.com/articles/southern-cross/|access-date=2020-07-03|language=en-GB}}
The Republican political party Fianna Uladh is formed by Liam Kelly as the political wing of Saor Uladh.{{cite book|last1=Hanley|first1=Brian|last2=Millar|first2=Scott|year=2009|title=The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party|location=Dublin|publisher=Penguin Ireland|page=11}}
Roselawn Cemetery opens in Belfast.{{Cite web|title=Roselawn Cemetery - Belfast City Council|url=https://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/community/cemeteries/roselawncemetery.aspx|access-date=2020-07-03|website=belfastcity.gov.uk}}

John Hewitt's The Bloody Brae: A Dramatic Poem (1936) is first broadcast on the BBC Northern Ireland Home Service.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

::Winners: Linfield

::Winners: Derry City 2 – 2, 0 – 0, 1 – 0 Glentoran

9 March – Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and MP (died on hunger strike 1981).
8 April – Joe Kernan, Gaelic footballer and manager.
28 April – Monica McWilliams, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition MLA, later Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
11 May – Jane Morrice, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition MLA.
23 May – Gerry Armstrong, footballer.
23 June – Michael Copeland, Unionist politician.
2 August – Sammy McIlroy, footballer and football manager.
28 August – Clive Culbertson, mystic, musician and healer.
12 October – Kieran Deeny, medical doctor turned independent politician and MLA.
19 October – Angela Feeney, opera singer.
Eamon Collins, Provisional Irish Republican Army activist and writer (died 1999).
Martin O'Brien, journalist.
Marian Price, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer.

1 May – James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (born 1865).
11 October – Thomas Teevan, Unionist politician and lawyer (born 1927).