1958 in Northern Ireland

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Decades: 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s Centuries: 20th • 21st See also: 1958 in the United Kingdom 1958 in Ireland Other events of 1958 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events

• 18 March - Taoiseach Éamon de Valera says he would be willing to have talks with the government of Northern Ireland on wider economic co-operation.
• 25 October - Northern Ireland-built Short SC.1 experimental VTOL aircraft makes its first free vertical flight.

Arts and literature

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Sport

Football

• Football World Cup
  • Group stage
    • Northern Ireland 1-1 Czechoslovakia
    • Northern Ireland 1-1 Argentina
    • Northern Ireland 1-1 West Germany
  • Group play-off stage
    • Northern Ireland 2-1 Czechoslovakia AET
  • Quarter final stage
    • Northern Ireland 0-4 France Northern Ireland knocked out

• Irish League
  • Winners: Ards

• Irish Cup
  • Winners: Ballymena United 2 - 0 Linfield

Births

• 21 February - Jake Burns, singer and guitarist.
• 25 March - Margaret Ritchie, SDLP MLA.
• 2 May - Jim Harvey, footballer and football manager.
• 1 August - Adrian Dunbar, actor.
• 13 August - Feargal Sharkey, former lead singer of The Undertones.
• 20 August - Nigel Dodds, MP, Democratic Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• 20 October - Dave Finlay, professional wrestler..
• 4 November - Pat Ramsey, SDLP MLA and former Mayor of Derry.
• November - Bernadette Sands McKevitt, former leading member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement.
• Brendan Cleary, poet.
• Davy Francis, cartoonist.
• Jim Gray, former Ulster Defence Association leader in East Belfast (died 2005).
• Andre Stitt, performance artist.

Deaths

• 24 August - Paul Henry, artist (born 1876).
• 2 December - Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (born 1892).