1949 in Northern Ireland

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Decades: 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s Centuries: 20th • 21st See also: 1949 in the United Kingdom 1949 in Ireland Other events of 1949 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events

• 17 April — At midnight 26 counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
• 3 May — The British Government passes an act guaranteeing the position of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom as long as a majority of its citizens want it to be. The government also recognises the existence of the Republic of Ireland.
• 10 May — The Oireachtas motion calls a "Protest Against Partition" because of the Ireland Act provisions.
• 13 May — John A. Costello, Éamon de Valera, William Norton and Seán MacBride share a platform to protest the British government's attitude to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.
• 25 May — The Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh receive the freedom of Belfast during a visit to the city.
• 8 November — Street names in any language other than English are prohibited by an Amendment to a Bill passed in the Senate of Northern Ireland.

Arts and literature

• Daniel O'Neill paints Place du Tertre and The Blue Skirt.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Derry City 1–0 Glentoran

• Belfast Celtic withdrew from the Irish League at the end of a season which had seen crowd trouble at a match against Linfield five months earlier.

Golf

• Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup.

Births

• 14 January — Donovan McClelland, Social Democratic and Labour Party politician.
• 25 January — Tom Paulin, poet and critic.
• 23 February — Christopher Harte, cricketer.
• 17 March — Pat Rice, footballer and football coach.
• 18 March — Alex Higgins, snooker player.
• 1 April — Sammy Nelson, footballer.
• 8 April — Graham Crothers, cricketer.
• 6 August — Alan Campbell, Pentecostal pastor.
• 1 September — Alasdair McDonnell, Social Democratic and Labour Party MP and MLA.
• 6 September — Iris Robinson, Democratic Unionist Party MP for Strangford and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• 18 September — Mo Mowlam, 11th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Full date unknown

• Pat Finucane, solicitor killed by loyalist paramilitaries (died 1989).
• David McKittrick, journalist and writer.

Deaths

• 2 March — Cecil Lowry-Corry, 6th Earl Belmore, High Sheriff and councillor (born 1873).
• 19 September — George Shiels, dramatist (born 1886).

Full date unknown

• Robert Wilson Lynd, writer (born 1879).