1987 in Northern Ireland

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««« 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982	1987 in Northern Ireland	»»» 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
Decades: 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s Centuries: 20th • 21st See also: 1987 in the United Kingdom 1987 in Ireland Other events of 1987 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events

• 8 May - The SAS kills 8 IRA members and a civilian in an ambush at Loughgall.
• 8 November - 11 civilians are killed in an IRA explosion during a Remembrance Day service in Enniskillen. (See: Remembrance Day Bombing)

Arts and literature

• Ciarán Carson's The Irish for No poetry collection is published and wins the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Glentoran 1 - 0 Larne

Motorcycling

• Robert Dunlop wins the 125cc, 350cc and 1000cc races at the Cookstown 100 to be named “Man of the Meeting”.

Births

• 2 January - Daryl Fordyce, soccer player.
• 2 March - Jonathan Rea, motorcycle racer.
• 29 August - Tony Kane, soccer player.
• 16 September - Kyle Lafferty, international soccer player.
• 17 September - Greg Thompson, cricketer.
• 6 October - Michael O'Connor, soccer player.
• 25 October - Darron Gibson, soccer player.

Deaths

• 27 April - Maurice Gibson, judge (b.1913).
• 7 May - Colin Blakely, actor (b.1930).
• 8 May - Patrick Joseph Kelly, Commander of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, killed by Special Air Service at Loughgall (b.1957).
• 22 June - John Hewitt, poet (b.1907).
• 3 December - George Seawright, Loyalist politician.
• 22 December - John McMichael, leading Ulster Defence Association member, killed in car bomb attack.

Full date unknown

• Jimmy Warnock, boxer (b.1912).