22 March - Civil rights demonstrations take place all over Northern Ireland.
17 April - Bernadette Devlin, the 21-year-old student and civil rights campaigner, wins the Mid-Ulster by-election. She is the youngest female U.K. Member of Parliament ever.
14 August - James Chichester-Clark, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, calls for the mobilisation of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland:[3] start of Operation Banner.[1]
August - Andrew Boyd's historical work Holy War in Belfast is published in Tralee; it goes through 6 impressions in 3 years.
10 October - The Hunt Committee Report recommends an unarmed civil police force in Northern Ireland.[4]
25 November - Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) becomes law, granting universal suffrage for adults in local government elections by removing property franchises.[4]
27 November - Commissioner for Complaints appointed for local government and public bodies in Northern Ireland.[4]
Publication of Padraic Fiacc's own poems, By the Black Stream, and his edited collection of poetry by contemporaries surrounding the topic of The Troubles, The Wearing of the Black.
Publication of John Hewitt's collection The Day of the Corncrake: Poems of the Nine Glens with paintings by Charles McAuley.[5]