Events

• 29 May - A massive peace rally takes place in Belfast organized by Betty Williams, Mair ad Corrigan and Ciar n McKeown.
• May - Shankill Butchers are arrested.^[1]
• 10 August - Elizabeth II visits Northern Ireland as part of her Silver Jubilee celebrations under tight security.
• September - Rev. Ian Paisley launches the Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign to oppose the decriminalisation of homosexuality.^[2]
• 10 October - The Peace Movement founders, Mair ad Corrigan and Betty Williams win the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Coleraine 4 - 1 Linfield

Golf

• Moyola Park Golf Club is founded.

Births

• 10 March- Colin Murray, Radio DJ.
• 16 July - Bryan Budd, Parachute Regiment Corporal killed on active service in Afghanistan and posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (d.2006).
• 10 August - Danny Griffin, footballer.
• 23 August - Davy Larmour, footballer.
• 11 September - Enda Muldoon, Gaelic footballer.
• 15 October - Paul McKee, sprint athlete.
• 6 December - Paul McVeigh, footballer.
• 16 December - Darren Fitzgerald, footballer.

Deaths

• 3 March - Brian Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionist Party MP (b.1921).
• 17 April - William Conway, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh (b.1913).
• 24 April - Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (b.1909).
• 2 June - Stephen Boyd, actor (b.1931).
• 1 August - Bill Loughery, cricketer (b.1907).

References