1947 in Northern Ireland

← 1946 1945 1944 1947 in Northern Ireland → 1948 1949 1950
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	1947 in the United Kingdom 1947 in Ireland Other events of 1947 List of years in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Monarch - George VI

Events

• 22 April - British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Centaur (R06) (laid down 1944) is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• 11 August - The Enterprise express train service commences from Belfast to Dublin.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Belfast Celtic

• Irish Cup

Winners: Belfast Celtic 1 - 0 Glentoran

GAA

• Cavan defeat Antrim 3-04 to 1-06 to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
• Cavan subsequently defeat Kerry 2-11 to 2-07 in New York to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Golf

• Fred Daly wins The Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake.
• Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup.

Swimming

• 27–28 July - English endurance swimmer Tom Blower becomes the first person to swim the North Channel, from Donaghadee in County Down to Portpatrick in Scotland.

Births

• 23 February - Ken Goodall, international rugby player (died 2006).
• 5 March - Clodagh Rodgers, singer.
• 24 March - John Dallat, Social Democratic and Labour Party politician.
• 17 April - Linda Martin, singer.
• 23 April - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Member of UK Parliament.
• 8 May - Dr John Reid, 13th Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Home Secretary.
• 18 May - Eileen Pollock, actress.
• 19 May - Paul Brady, singer/songwriter.
• 12 August - Seamus Close, former Alliance Party MLA.
• 3 September - Eric Bell, guitarist.
• 26 October - Sir Reg Empey, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• 5 December - Seán Quinn, businessman.

Full date unknown

• Paul Haller, Soto Zen Buddhist teacher and Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center.
• Joe McCann, Official Irish Republican Army volunteer killed by British soldiers (died 1972).
• Eugene McMenamin, SDLP MLA
• Frank Ormsby, poet
• Eric Wrixon, musician

Deaths

• 2 January - Tom Ross, cricketer (born 1872)
• 4 January - Forrest Reid, novelist and literary critic (born 1875)
• 25 April - Richard Rowley, poet and writer (born 1877).